Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...special meeting of the board of overseers was held in Boston Wednesday, the Hon. E. R. Hoar, president, in the chair. It was voted to concur with the president and fellows in reappointing for five years from Sept. 1st, 1884, Dudley Allen Sargent, M. D., assistant professor of physical training and director of the Hemenway gymnasium; in appointing for five years from September 1st, 1884, Edward Newton Whittier, M. D., assistant professor of clinical medicines; Frank Winthrop Draper, M. D., assistant professor of legal medicine; in appointing as clinical instructors in the dental schools for 1884-1885, Horatio Cook Merriam...
...latest methods of gymnastic training claim for themselves these four points of excellence:-Perfect adaptability to individual need, pleasant exercise, the maximum of reward for the minimum of time, and effects plainly to be measured, seen, and felt. Dr. Sargent, of Cambridge, is the most successful among the new trainers, and the results are certainly remarkable. Given the necessary apparatus and the skilled teacher, there seems to be constant gain in both interest and vigor...
...Sargent, of the Harvard College gymnasium, is not in favor of training men for specialties. He says "I do not want to train up a small body of specialists, of gymnasts whose ability would equal that of professionals. I did that once in another college, and the result was that it practically killed general athletics there. The interest there has almost wholly died out, because the standard of excellence in these special departments has never been equalled since." The doctor is satisfied with the physical improvement of the Harvard athletes. He has made over 550 examinations so far this year...
...three strongest men in college, Foster, Boyden and Gorham, in the order named ; according to the tests of a recent physical examination by Dr. Sargent...
...almost without exception healthy, and well-developed men. Athletes are beginning to see that the best training for a specialty is the thorough development of the whole body, and not the abnormal development of particular muscles. When this idea has become generally accepted, as it seems probable under Dr. Sargent's teaching that it will, then this objection to specialties may be thrown aside. As to competition, it may be an evil, but it is a necessary evil. We must accept our athletes with this evil or not at all. [Turf, Field and Farm...