“The second course of the Institute will open on the second day of January, 1862, and continue ten weeks. Many peculiar and marked advantages will be enjoyed by the pupils of the winter term. D. B. Hagar, Esq., Ex-President of the American Institute of Instruction, Hon. Geo. Bradburn, Rev. Warren Burton, Rev. T. W. Higginson, and several other well known gentlemen, will deliver lectures before the class of the Institute....” In addition to the regular instruction in anatomy, physiology, hygiene, and gymnastics, the class will be taught “the principles of the ‘Swedish Movement-Cure,’[229] a department of the institution devoted to the treatment of curvature of the spine, paralysis, and other chronic maladies, affording rare opportunities to study in detail the application of Ling’s methods in treating such forms of chronic disease.... Each pupil, on being received into the Institute, will be critically examined with reference to strength, form, and health; and any deficiency thus disclosed will be at once placed under the most thorough treatment.... Each will be drilled by Dr. Lewis in person, with such care that he or she cannot fail to become a competent teacher of gymnastics. And each will have two drills a day.... All will be made familiar with at least two hundred different exercises ... and will be allowed, every one in turn, to lead a small class....” At this point a bit of contemporary testimony from a well-informed, but more impartial, source may be introduced. During the years 1858-1862 Mr. Thomas Wentworth Higginson contributed to the _Atlantic Monthly_ a series of vigorous and stimulating articles, full of good sense and literary charm, which were afterward collected and published in book form under the title “Outdoor Papers” (Boston, 1863; New York, 1894). One of them, on “Gymnastics,” which appeared in March of 1861, contains this reference to the ‘New System:’ “It would be unpardonable, in this connection, not to speak a good word for the favorite hobby of the day,—Dr. Lewis, and his system of gymnastics, or, more properly, of calisthenics. Dr. Winship[230] had done all that was needed in apostleship of severe exercises, and there was wanting some man with a milder hobby, perfectly safe for a lady to drive. The Fates provided that man, also, in Dr. Lewis,—so hale and hearty, so profoundly confident in the omnipotence of his own methods and the uselessness of all others, with such a ready invention, and such an inundation of animal spirits that he could flood any company, no matter how starched or listless, with an unbounded appetite for ball-games and bean-games. How long it will last in the hands of others than the projector remains to be seen, especially as some of his feats are more exhausting than average gymnastics; but, in the mean time, it is just what is wanted for multitudes of persons who find or fancy the real gymnasium to be unsuited to them. It will especially