A guide to the history of physical educationLeonard, Fred Eugene
History
A guide to the history of physical education
Leonard, Fred Eugene
Physical education and training; Physical education and training -- History
The portions of this chapter which have to do with the life and work of
Dr. Edward Hitchcock and Dr. Dudley Allen Sargent have already appeared
in print, as Chapters XIII and XIV in the writer’s “Pioneers of Modern
Physical Training” (New York, The Association Press, 1915). Other
references are given in the text and footnotes.
FOOTNOTES:
[239] Mrs. J. H. McCurdy, “The History of Physical Training at Mount
Holyoke College,” in the _American Physical Education Review_ for March,
1909.
[240] See “Instructions in Gymnastics, containing a full description
of more than eight hundred exercises, and illustrated by five hundred
engravings. By J. E. D’Alfonce, late Professor in the Military School in
St. Petersburgh, and in Paris.” New York, George F. Nesbitt & Co., 1951.
The author speaks in the preface of “seven years’ practice with pupils
of all ages,” and of “the debt which I owe to America for the freedom I
enjoy, and for the hospitality and friendship I have received from her
citizens....”
[241] Page 60 of “The University of Virginia: Glimpses of Its Past and
Present,” by John S. Patton and Sallie J. Doswell (Lynchburg, Va., 1900).
See also a letter (“Due Tribute”) published in _The Outlook_ for May 18,
1907 (=85=, p. 122).
[242] In Bartlett and Gifford’s “Dartmouth Athletics” (Concord, N. H.,
1893).
[243] The Princeton Book. A Series of Sketches Pertaining to the History,
Organization and Present Condition of the College of New Jersey. By
Officers and Graduates of the College. Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Co.,
1879. See p. 268.
[244] It was opened for use December 8, 1857, according to an item in the
_Deutsche Turn-Zeitung_ for 1858, p. 44.
[245] This is the date given in _Jahrbücher der Deutsch-Amerikanischen
Turnerei_ (New York), =3=, 55 (December, 1893). See also a reference in
=2=, 267 (July, 1893).
[246] For references in the University catalogue and the records of the
Board of Trustees, and for a copy of the report in the _Cincinnati Daily
Gazette_ I am indebted to the kindness of Professor J. E. Bradford, of
the department of history at Miami. The first hint of any such episode
as the above was gained from the _Jahrbücher_ mentioned in the footnote
preceding this one.
[247] The donor was Henry Bromfield Rogers, Harvard 1822.
[248] The _Yale Literary Magazine_ of March, 1860 (=25=, 230).
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