In “The Harvard Book” (Cambridge, 1875) Thomas Wentworth Higginson describes the gymnasium as “of brick, octagonal in form, 74 feet in diameter and 40 feet high. It includes as great a variety of apparatus as is compatible with the size of the building; there are also two bowling alleys, and there are dressing-rooms, but no bath-rooms.... The first teacher of gymnastics in Harvard College was Abram Molineaux Hewlett. He was a professional teacher of boxing, and had established a gymnasium of his own in Worcester, Mass., where he was highly esteemed. He was a mulatto, of very fine physique, and of reputable and estimable character. He was, moreover, a fair gymnast and a remarkably good teacher of boxing. In the first years of his term of service there was a good deal of activity in the Gymnasium, and regular class-exercises went on. After a few years the interest fell off in some degree, or concentrated itself chiefly on the rowing-weights. Mr. Hewlett died December 6, 1871, and ... Mr. Frederic William Lister was appointed in 1872.” Hewlett’s name does not appear in the list of “Officers of Instruction and Government” in the Harvard catalogues, but from 1867 to 1871 he is mentioned with the title “Instructor and Curator” in a brief statement regarding the “College Gymnasium.” [Illustration: FIG. 72.—The Yale Gymnasium of 1860.] [Illustration: FIG. 73.—The Yale Gymnasium of 1860.] At Yale College a gymnasium was erected in 1859, on Library Street near the corner of High, behind the college grounds proper, and “dedicated on Monday evening, January 30th” of the following year.[248] It was a plain brick structure 100 by 50 feet, with a main hall 25 feet high to the crossbeams, and large gable windows. Across the front (south) end of the hall stretched a gallery 25 feet deep, in which were dressing closets and a room or rooms for an instructor or janitor. A basement story, about 10 feet high, contained bath-rooms and bowling alleys. The total cost was something over $11,000, of which $10,000 was appropriated by the Corporation and George Merriam of Springfield, Mass., contributed $500 of the balance. Yale catalogues from 1860 on through the decade state that for the privileges of the gymnasium, “including instruction, the sum of $4 a year will be charged to each academical student.” Catalogues of 1867 and later years add that “those who use the bathing-rooms connected with the Gymnasium pay a small fee for tickets.” Lyman B. Bunnell, B.A., is listed as Instructor in Gymnastics in 1860 and 1861, and Follansbee G. Welch[249] during the years 1867-72.[250] [Illustration: FIG. 74.—The Amherst (Barrett) Gymnasium of 1860.]