In the “Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the University in Cambridge,” October, 1825, appears the name “Charles Follen, J.U.D., Instructor in German, and Lecturer on the Civil Law.” The next catalogue (September, 1826) retains the name and title unchanged, but in that “for the Academical year 1827-1828” (published in 1827) he is called “Instructor in German, and Superintendent of the Gymnasium;” and in both these catalogues the following paragraph occurs: “The regular Gymnastick exercises, when the Superintendent of the Gymnasium is present, are on Wednesday and Friday, from 12 to 1 o’clock; or when the length of the day admits, after evening Commons. On Monday, the Monitors and Vice Monitors meet separately with the Superintendent, to prepare for the general exercises.” The catalogues for 1828-1829 (published in 1828) and 1829-1830 (published in 1829) make no mention of “Gymnastick exercises,” and give Follen the title “Instructor in the German Language, in Ethics, and in Civil and Ecclesiastical History.” From 1826 through 1829 this further paragraph is included: “Military exercises are allowed on Tuesday and Thursday, from 12 to 1 o’clock, or after evening Commons; with music not oftener than every other time, and liberty of a parade on the afternoons of Exhibition days.” In a letter to Beck dated March 5, 1826, Follen had written: “In Boston a gymnasium is soon to be established.” The gentlemen interested in the project offered him a liberal salary if he would “superintend the erection of the proper apparatus and become the principal instructor,” and authorized him to engage a suitable assistant. September 26 he again wrote to Beck: “The day after tomorrow my rope-dancing begins in Boston. The gallows stand, in significant majesty, on the spot. There is no lack of gallows-birds, large and small, genteel and vulgar....” A petition had been presented to the Board of Aldermen of Boston on March 13, asking for the use of a certain piece of land “for the purpose of establishing a school of gymnastic instruction and exercise.” April 17 the city authorities granted this request. Following a call which appeared in the Boston _Daily Advertiser_ of June 12, a meeting of citizens was held June 15, at the Exchange Coffee House, to take steps to carry out the plan for a public gymnasium. The official report is published in the _American Journal of Education_ for July, 1826, (Vol. I, p. 243). The meeting unanimously resolved “that it is expedient to attempt the establishment of a Gymnastic School in the city of Boston,” and appointed William Sullivan, Dr. John C. Warren, Prof. George Ticknor, Dr. John G. Coffin, and John S. Foster, with others to be selected by them, a committee to carry the resolution into effect, by securing and applying contributions from the citizens of Boston. Others mentioned as especially interested in the project are Judge Prescott, Josiah Quincy, Daniel Webster, Peter O. Thacher, John A.