President James Walker of Harvard University, in his annual report dated December 31, 1858, after remarking that “the need of greater facilities for exercise suited to our climate, and for the physical education of students, has long been felt, and is felt more and more,” announced that “a friend of the College, whose name is not divulged, has given $8000 to be expended in the erection and equipment of a Gymnasium, for the use of ‘all undergraduates and officers of the College, and such other persons as the College Faculty may permit’....” The next December he reported that “a suitable building has been erected during the past year, with all the necessary apparatus, accommodations, and means of instruction. Almost all the students, both undergraduates and members of the professional schools (there were then 431 undergraduates, and the total enrollment was 839), have begun to avail themselves of the advantages thus supplied, each one paying a small fee (two dollars a term) in order to defray the current expenses of the establishment.” The Treasurer’s Statement dated December 1, 1859, noted that “the want of a Gymnasium has been supplied by the presentation of $8000, through Rev. Dr. Huntington, by a gentleman who declines to be known except as a ‘Graduate’ of the College.[247] The building has been erected and furnished, at a cost of $9488.05.” Further details are supplied by _The Harvard Magazine_ for October, 1859 (VI: 38): “The spot selected for the building was the little Delta at the junction of Cambridge Street and Broadway. The ground was broken March 23, 1859. The building is in the Italian style, and was erected under the direction of Mr. E. C. Cabot, architect, Boston.... The Gymnasium was opened for use on Wednesday, September 14. Meanwhile, most fortunately, the services of Professor (!) A. Molineaux Hewlett had been secured. He came with an experience in gymnastic training of fourteen years, the last five of which had been devoted most acceptably to the citizens of Worcester....” [Illustration: FIG. 71.—The Harvard Gymnasium of 1859.]