Word: hemenway
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Smith. H. W. Putnam, L. D. Brandlis, J. B. Warner, F. C. Lowell; Medical and Dental schools-R. M. Hodges. Morrill Wyman, H. P. Wolcott, G. B. Shattuck, Algernon Coolidge, J. S. Billings; physical training, athletics, sports and sanitary condition of the buildings-Robert Bacon, H. P. Wolcott, Augustus Hemenway, C. F. Adams. 2d, G. W. Weld, R. F. Clark, Edwin Farnum; college government, F. C. Lowell, Samuel Hoar, E. P. Seaver, S. M. Weld, Moorfield Story, and T. K. Lothrop...
...Summer School of Physical training for men and women which was held last summer in Hemenway Gymnasium, under Dr. Sargent, will again be opened for five weeks, beginning July 1st. The course will be essentially the same as last year though several new features will be added. A preliminary reading course will be prescribed for those signifying their intention to join the school. The course, though especially intended for teachers of gymnastics is, nevertheless, open to all who desire to undertake it. The work will be both theoretical and practical the former comprising lectures recitations and practical talks, while...
...wish to call attention to an article in another column, on the list which Dr. Sargent is preparing, to show the physical development of Harvard men. and the benefits which have emanated from the use of the Hemenway gymnasium...
...faculty, to consider the subject of college athletics, made its report, it was found that over two hundred of the men who had been examined by Dr. Sargent, had a physical development of over 675. That is higher than the best developed man in 1880, when the Hemenway gymnasium was opened. As this year is the tenth since the opening of the gymnasium, Dr. Sargent is preparing a list of all the men whose development is above 675, to show the work accomplished during the last decade. Already there are 225 men on the list, the highest average being between...
...decided gain in certain moral qualities is also noted by Professor Shaler, side by side with the physical gain. Between 1864 and 1870 it was not uncommon to find Harvard students seriously the worse for habits of drinking. Since then, especially since the foundation of the Hemenway gymnasium, the vice has rapidly diminished. At present, Professor Shaler, whose acquaintance extends to perhaps half the students in the university, does not know of a single one who can be called a drunkard. The use of tobacco he also finds to have largely diminished, and even the use of tea and coffee...