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...Gymnastic Manual," by Dr. Edward Hitchcock, professor of gymnastics at Amherst College Gymnasium, will be published soon by a Boston firm...
President Edward Hitchcock, at the head of the hygienic department at Amherst College, delivered an address before the students of the Union Theological Seminary last week Monday on "Physical Education." He spoke of the requirements of a gymnasium which should be well ventilated and well lighted, besides being well furnished, and advocates boxing with gloves and playing billiards, which like all other forms of exercise in a gymnasium should be done with moderation. Young men, he said, should not get over-winded, because the heart is a tender organ in young men as well as in young women. [Audible smiles...
...statistics of students at Cornell collected thus far by Dr. Hitchcock, show an average weight of 148 3-5 pounds; average height, 5 feet 7 1.8 inches; chest, full, 36 7-8 inches; chest, repose, 35 3-8 inches; contracted biceps, right arm, 11 5 8 inches; biceps not contracted, 10 1-4 inches; capacity of lungs, 4.416 litres. The chest measurements and lung capacity are above the average of college students...
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Among the American contributors to the 17th volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, now in press, will be Profs. C. H. Hitchcock and J. K. Lord, of Dartmouth; Prof. W. D. Whitney of Yale, and Mr. E. L. Godkin, of the Nation...