announces that “a very complete Gymnasium, with every variety of apparatus for exercise, has lately been erected on the college grounds;” and the Treasurer’s Reports contain these items: 1827—June 28, Cash paid for digging, etc., for gymnasium $ 26.06 July 27, Materials and labor for gymnasium 231.81 ” 31, Lumber for gymnasium 24.14 Aug. 17, Dynamometer for gymnasium 27.00 ” 27, Lumber, etc. 3.00 ” 27, George F. Haskins, on account of services as teacher in gymnasium 15.00 Sept. 4, George F. Haskins services in full 135.00 1828—Jan. 5, Spar for gymnasium 10.00 Feb. 4, Work on gymnasium 10.22 President Jasper Adams, D.D., of Charleston College, Charleston, S. C., is thus quoted in the _Quarterly Review and Journal of the American Education Society_ for May, 1830 (Vol. II, p. 244): “A system of bodily exercise was adopted three or four years ago, and suitable apparatus was constructed; but it was not found useful, and the apparatus has been destroyed.” In speaking of Lieber’s year in England reference has already been made (p. 240) to an American, John Neal,[218] who was at that time residing in London. Neal had spent his early life in New England, in 1815 established himself in business in Baltimore, studied law in that city and was admitted to the bar in 1819, and meanwhile, in order to support himself, had been writing articles for the _Portico_ and had followed these with a two-volume novel and a book of poems. A whole series of novels was produced within the next few years, and some of these were reprinted in London. Late in 1823 he left America to try his fortune as a pioneer of American letters in the British metropolis, and during his residence in London, from January of 1824 until April of 1827, became a frequent contributor to the most important magazines and reviews, residing much of the time at the house of Jeremy Bentham, by invitation of that distinguished jurist and philosopher. While still in Baltimore he had been moved by signs of mental overwork to take lessons in boxing, fencing, and riding; in London these were continued, and when Carl Voelker[219] (German, _Karl Völker_), like Beck, Follen, and Lieber, a German refugee, opened there his gymnasia patterned after the Jahn _Turnplatz_ Neal became one of his most enthusiastic pupils and supporters. Returning to America in the summer of 1827 he opened a law office in Portland, Maine, where the remainder of his life was passed. The following words from his autobiography (pp. 333-335) evidently refer to the first year (1827-1828) of this residence: