Physical Training Treated From American And European Points of View
Physical Training Treated From American And European Points of View
Edward Mussey Hartwell
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College athletics, with their concomitant intercollegiate con- tests, have assumed such magnitude that it is quite the fash- ion to speak of many colleges as if they were schools for forming ball-players, oarsmen, and athletes. There would be more point to such satire if the interest in athletics, which seems to deepen and strengthen year by year, were confined to the student class instead of pervading the community as a whole. Exhibitions and contests of every description, which would not have... been licensed or tolerated, much less pecu- niarily supported, twenty or thirty years ago, now yield quick and large returns in popularity and cash to their promoters. HARVARD'S PHYSICAL DEPARTMENT. Xext to the athletic revival, the cause of physical educa- tion in America has received its greatest impetus, in recent years at least, from the organization by Harvard University, in 1879, of a new department of physical training in connec- tion with the Hemenway Gymnasium, for whose direction and equipment Mr.
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