tailieunhanh - University Oars: Being a Critical Enquiry Into the After Health of the Men Who Rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat-Race, from the Year 1829 to 1869, Based on the Personal Experience of the Rowers Themselves.

THE following pages contain the results of an enquiry into the after health of University Oars, which has been carried out with more or less interruption during the last four years. It was commenced in the spring of the year 1869. I then hoped to obtain the information which I needed in the course of twelve or eighteen months, but I soon found that the labour which I had undertaken was likely to prove more arduous and more tedious than I had anticipated. | CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION UNIVERSITY OARS Being a Critical Enquiry Into THE After Health of the Men Who Rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat-Race from THE Year 1829 TO 1869 Based ON THE Personal Experience OF THE Rowers Themselves. John Edward Morgan Cambridge CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION Books of enduring scholarly value Cambridge The city of Cambridge received its royal charter in 1201 having already been home to Britons Romans and Anglo-Saxons for many centuries. Cambridge University was founded soon afterwards and celebrates its octocentenary in 2009. This series explores the history and influence of Cambridge as a centre of science learning and discovery its contributions to national and global politics and culture and its inevitable controversies and scandals. University Oars University Oars is a compilation of letters of response to the author from the participants of the Oxford and Cambridge boat races. John Edward Morgan himself a former university oarsman and physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary spent four years sending inquiries and compiling responses in his effort to shed some light on an important perceived physiological problem which he sought to investigate for the welfare of the rising generation. Published in 1873 his responses numbered 251 out of 255 letters sent to university oarsmen detailing the athletes current physical and mental condition. Morgan s findings dispel the widely held notion of the time that the famous test of strength and endurance had adverse latent physiological and psychological effects on its stalwart participants. Cambridge University Press has long been a pioneer in the reissuing of out-of-print titles from its own backlist producing digital reprints of books that are still sought after by scholars and students but could not be reprinted economically using traditional technology. The Cambridge Library Collection extends this activity to a wider range of books which are still of importance to researchers and .