Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...capable of change for the better. This is the bathing department. It has long been a standard complaint that the small stone bathtubs for sponge bathing are far from what they ought to be. Many men speak of this and shun them entirely after a single trial. Yet Dr. Sargent prescribes sponge bathing for many men and if his instructions are to be followed these tubs must be used. The trouble is that they are flat bottomed and do not drain well, so that much of the sediment remains in them after men have finished washing. This is particularly liable...
...recent lecture delivered in Brooklyn, Dr. Sargent spoke of the progress that the Germans, French and Scots are making in athletic sports and gymnastic exercises. "We need in America," said the doctor, "a happy combination of all the systems of athletic development as practiced in these countries-the German for strength, the English and Scotch for sport, and the French for grace. The Western States adopt for the most part the German method, the Eastern and Middle States hail with delight the English athletic games and sports, while in New England the French calisthenics are popular. Each system is good...
...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 specialities may be thrown aside. As to competition, it may be an evil, but it is a necessary evil. We must accept our athletics with this evil...
...gymnasium of Johns Hopkins University was opened last December. It accommodated 250 persons. A very complete set of Dr. Sargent's developing appliances, says the University Circular, is ranged against the walls on the four sides of the room, and a variety of apparatus such as is usually found in gymnasiums has also been provided. In the dressing rooms a large number of private lockers are placed, besides bath tubs and set bowls supplied with hot and cold water. The gymnasium is a place for "body-building" and a place for recreation. It will be administered as far as possible...
...will ever stand ready to supply the intellectual wants of all who may apply. Touching upon the new elective system, he declared that it seemed to him sometimes that it was being carried too far. "You notice," said he, "what the club is doing with its past presidents. Sargent was our president and we made him an overseer. Dr. Weld was our president. You made him an overseer. And, gentlemen, it is happening that men are going to college so they may join the club, and they join this club because they may become its president, and they seek...