in executing our plans of connecting them by the assistance of a pupil and friend of Jahn, the greatest modern advocate of gymnastics. We have proceeded slowly in our attempts, for the undertaking was a new one; but now we see ourselves near the accomplishment of our views. The whole subject of the union of moral and physical education is a great deal simpler than it may at first appear. And here, too, we may say, that we were the first in the new continent to connect gymnastics with a purely literary establishment.” Of the nature of this “first gymnasium on this side of the Atlantic,” and the work done in it, not much direct evidence has come down to us. One former pupil (Thomas G. Appleton)[196] writes: “‘Pitching the bar’ was generally done near the schoolhouse; but the regular exercise of gymnastics was upon a plateau just below the hill, where gymnastic appliances, then freshly introduced from Germany, were in abundance.” Dr. George C. Shattuck, another “Round Hiller,” is quoted by Dr. E. M. Hartwell[197] as follows: “Dr. Beck, the teacher of Latin, afterward the professor of Latin in Harvard University, was the teacher of gymnastics. A large piece of ground was devoted to the purpose and furnished with all the apparatus used in the German gymnasia. The whole school was divided into classes, and each class had an hour three times a week for instruction by Dr. Beck.” A newspaper article copied in the _American Journal of Education_ for July, 1826, states that classes begin at 5:30, others at 6:15, and breakfast comes at 7; from 7:30 till 9 the only exercises are in declamation and dancing, 9 till 12 other classes, 12 until 1 rest, dinner at 1, 2 until 5 more classes, 5 until 7 “exercise and amusement. At this time the classes in gymnastics have their instruction, when the weather permits.” The evening meal follows, and devotional exercises are held at 8, after which the smaller boys go to bed, and the rest study for an hour longer.