fall session of 1858 the society was reorganized, and Mr. Roemler again engaged as teacher at a salary of $480; but as the number of members during these two sessions was on an average only about 75 (out of 220 students) they were, for want of funds, obliged to rescind the contract with their teacher at the end of March last, whereupon Mr. Roemler went to Dayton.... After his departure the number of students at the exercises of the gymnasium, which under their faithful teacher’s direction had always been from 60 to 80, dwindled down in a few weeks to about a dozen, and today the gymnasium is closed altogether, for want of interest in the students and citizens to continue their exercises without a teacher.” The annual catalogue of Miami University issued in May of 1859, apparently oblivious of the sudden collapse of the plan, announces that “An extensive Gymnastic Apparatus has been erected in the College Campus, and an expert Teacher instructs the students in all the branches of Gymnastics under the direction of Professor Christin, M.D.” The “festival” to which the latter refers took place June 29, 1858,[245] on the day before Commencement. Apparatus had been set up on the campus between the Main Building and the South Dormitory, and “thousands of spectators of both sexes came.” A report published in the _Cincinnati Daily Gazette_ of July 2, 1858, states that about twenty-five representatives of the Hamilton _Turnverein_ and other delegates from the Cincinnati _Turngemeinde_ and Young Men’s Gymnastic Association were present. The program opened at 2 P.M. with a song by the Hamilton Turners. William M. Corry then addressed the audience on the subject of physical education, and the gymnastic exercises followed, continuing until late in the afternoon. The eight young men to whom the judges awarded prizes, four of them members of the Miami Gymnastic Association, “were each crowned with a wreath of evergreen in the presence of the multitude.”[246] In the Williams College catalogue for 1851-1852, published in the former year, it is stated that “A well furnished Gymnasium, with which are connected facilities for bathing, is now provided.” The same sentence is repeated in catalogues for 1852-1853 and 1853-1854, but modified in those for 1854-1855 and the three years following to read: “For their physical training a well furnished Gymnasium, with which are connected facilities for bathing, is owned and controlled by the students.” The catalogue for 1858-1859, issued in 1858, announces that “a new stone Gymnasium, to be owned and controlled by the students, is about to be erected, with which will be connected facilities for bathing;” and in the next year we are told that “a convenient Gymnasium, owned and controlled by the students, has just been erected.”