Word: system
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...twenty different gymnasium courses. It was added that during the last ten years there have been trained in the Harvard gymnasium over 700 physical instructors of whom many are in universities and colleges. Yet is it not a fact that should a Harvard graduate wish to get this Harvard system of physical training which is the standard for the country be must either leave Harvard and go to one of these institutions where Harvard trained men are instructing, or attend the Summer School? In reality during his four years of college life he can take advantage of the great opportunities...
...feature, however, of the system, as it has existed for some years past, should be carefully guarded against, especially if the scope of gymnastic training is to expand still further. Work in the gymnasium is too apt to become separated from outdoor sport. It should be a means toward the real end, open air exercise, but it is too often looked upon as itself...
...seasons of the year, outdoor exercise is impossible and indoor work becomes necessary. Unfortunately, also, some individuals find themselves unable to enter upon the usual fields of sport, without preliminary training on the machines. In general, however, a man of ordinary health and fair development can build up his system by football, baseball, rowing, tennis, or any other sport which teaches him quickness of eye and command of his muscles in proportion to their growth, far more efficiently than he can build it up in a gymnasium. The ideal use of the gymnasium is the preliminary crew training. A completely...
...Hopkins, Indiana, Illinois, Bowdoin, Dickinson, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Amherst, Bates, Dart mouth, Oberlin, Chicago, Kansas, Lehigh, Wesleyan, Colby, Haverford, Trinity, Rutgers, Tufts, Williams, Oregon, Oberlin and Leland Stanford, Jr. In all over 700 physical instructors have been trained in the Hemenway Gymnasium during the last ten years. The Harvard system of apparatus forms the equipment of 740 gymnasiums of the country, 263 of them belonging to schools and colleges...
...system of self-government based on the honor system has been adopted by the Lehigh undergraduate body...