... such and somewhat similar grounds are the objections to these pastimes generally founded. The men of muscle, on the other hand, judging from theirown personal experience, no less than from their ... rows in the race ought to live till the age of 60; and if all the members of the Oxford 1829 crew hadlived till the 10th of June, 1869, the 40th anniversary of the race, and then died, their lives ... learning from them what has been their personal experience, whe-ther as years come round they feel themselves more and more exhausted and decrepit, in a word, prematurelyused up; or whether they...