Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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FENCING.- F. W. Lister. formerly superintendent Harvard University Gvmnasium, will teach during the ensuing season at Dr. Sargent's gymnasium, corner Church and Palmer streets. For terms, dates, etc., address 26 No. Harvard street, Allston, foot of Boylston street, Cambridge...
FENCING.- F. W. Lister, formerly superintendent Harvard University Gymnasium, will teach during the ensuing season at Dr. Sargent's gymnasium, corner Church and Palmer streets. For terms, dates, etc., address 26 No. Harvard street, Allston, foot of Boylston street, Cambridge...
...eresting to note the growing attention of the medical profession to college athletics and scientific physical development. The last number of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal devotes a good deal of space to Dr. Sargent's article in the November Scribner, and mentions several questions suggested...
...moderately good in all; but we recognize while human nature is what it is, that many will aspire to special excellence. It would be a curious problem in experimental mechanics to decide just how a man should be built to use his strength to the greatest advantage. Dr. Sargent raises the question, but leaves the answer to time and statistics. There is one very important aspect of the subject that we are glad is not overlooked. It is whether the athlete has the strength of constitution necessary to stand the strain of severe muscular exertion. We notice that...
...regard to one's development as plotted in Dr. Sargent's anthropometric chart, the point of greatest significance is not to see how many of one's measurements come in the centre of the chart, but to first endeavor to straighten one's line wherever it may be, and then carry it forward as near the one-hundred per cent. line as possible. In other words, endeavor to obtain a symmetrical figure; then strive for a fullorbed and harmonious development of all parts of the body...