Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...CRIMSON on Jan. 4 gave a review of Dr. Sargent's report to the Committee on Physical Training, and on Jan. 7, on the methods in use at a number of the leading universities and colleges. Dr. Sargents's report it seems to me, with its suggestions for regular gymnasium exercise, is of great importance to every Harvard undergraduate...
There were three plans suggested: First, that every student should be subjected to a physical examination every year, leaving all exercise optional; second, that there be required of all Freshmen physical examinations and gymnasium exercise three hours a week, which, with a weekly lecture on Hygiene, should count as a half course; and third, that a graded series of elective courses in physical training be offered...
...Physical Training could not be organized and a full series of elective courses instituted in one year; but by adopting the second plan first Harvard could gradually work over into the third plan, Thus the physical development of the average student would be looked after, and, by exempting from gymnasium exercise all men on the Freshman athletic squads, the standard of the Freshman and 'Varsity teams would naturally be raised...
...last Friday's CRIMSON there were given the methods in use at several colleges which require gymnasium exercise throughout the college course and give credit for the work done. Below will be found a list of colleges which require physical training without giving credit for it. Although Dr. Sargent does not recommend or believe in compulsory gymnasium work without credit, today's list is given to show how general is the recognition by college faculties of the value and need of physical training...
Yale, Williams and the Western Reserve University require gymnasium work of the freshman class only. Wesleyan, Colby, Haverford, Trinity, Rutgers, Smith, Tufts, Cornell, and the Universities of Wisconsin, California, Kansas, and of Indianapolis, all require gymnasium work of the freshman and sophomore classes. The University of North Carolina requires exercise of all students except seniors. Lafayette, Bucknell, Colgate, Dartmouth, Drury, Hanover, Lehigh, Union, the University of Minnesota, and Wabash require exercise of the students in all classes. The University of Chicago to enforce its gymnasium requirements will not allow students who take an excessive number of cuts to continue their...