Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Princeton required physical exercise from 1869 to within a few years, when the plan was abandoned on account of the meagre accommodations of the gymnasium...
...University of Pennsylvania, on account of the small size of its gymnasium, only requires the attendance of the freshmen upon a course of lectures on Physical Training and Hygiene...
BOXING.- Do you want to take boxing lessons? If so there is no better man than Wm. S. Gordon, who has been appointed instructor at the Gymnasium. Lessons at Gymnasium or at rooms. Wm. S. Gordon, 35 Boylston street, Cambridge...
...course of lectures on human anatomy and physiology is given the Freshman class. On entering college every student is examined and given a list of prescribed exercises. During the winter term each class is required to spend a half-hour on four days of the week in the gymnasium. For this class drill freshmen have military drill and Indian clubs; sophomores, wrestling and dumb-bells; juniors, boxing and fencing; seniors, fencing with foils. In addition there are class sections for the apparatus exercises...
Yale requires all freshmen, except members of the athletic teams, to take regular gymnasium exercise...