Note 155 — Chapter VI · UNDERGRADUATE LIFE AT CAMBRIDGE—OCTOBER 1850 TO JANUARY 1854—Æt. 19-22.
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Professor Tait says, “He used to go up on the pollard at the bathing-shed, throw himself flat on his face in the water, dive and cross, then ascend the pollard on the other side, project himself flat on his back in the water. He said it stimulated the circulation!”