[249] Follansbee Goodrich Welch was born at Concord, N. H., June 8, 1843, and graduated from Dio Lewis’s Normal Institute for Physical Education. In addition to his duties at Yale he served as “Instructor in Physical Culture” at Dartmouth College from the spring of 1867 through the year 1867-68, and instructor in gymnastics at Wesleyan University 1868-69, besides conducting for a number of years an eight weeks summer “Normal Institute for the Training of Teachers in Dio Lewis’s New Gymnastics,” at the Glenwood Ladies’ Seminary, West Brattleboro, Vermont. In 1869 he published “Moral, Intellectual, and Physical Culture; or the Philosophy of True Living” (New York, Wood & Holbrook), Part I of which deals with “The Gymnasium,” and Part II with “the Dio Lewis System of Gymnastics.” The New York Homeopathic Medical College conferred on him the degree of M.D. in 1870, and he afterwards practised medicine in New York City. [250] See “Four Years at Yale,” by a Graduate of ’69 (Lyman H. Bagg) (New Haven, Charles C. Chatfield & Co., 1871), pp. 31 and 402-405; and Dudley A. Sargent in “Yale College: A Sketch of Its History....” (New York, Henry Holt & Co., 1879), =2=, pp. 458 and 459. [251] He had been a student in Harvard College at the time when Follen introduced the Jahn gymnastics there, and was in Andover Theological Seminary while the “Mechanical Association” was still flourishing. [252] It was 72 by 50 feet and two stories high, with walls of Pelham gneiss or granite. The first floor contained an office, dressing rooms, and bowling alleys, and above this was the main hall for gymnastic exercises. The architect was Charles E. Parkes of Boston, and the total cost of the building and fixtures amounted to $15,000. [253] He was born May 23, 1828, at Amherst, Massachusetts, where his father had been appointed professor of chemistry and natural history in the college three years before and was afterwards to become its third president (1845-1854). Upon completing his preparatory studies at Amherst Academy, and at Williston Seminary, in Easthampton, eleven miles to the southwest, he entered Amherst College and graduated with the class of 1849. Then from 1850 to 1861, with the exception of a single year (1852-53), he was teacher of elocution and natural science at Williston Seminary, and early in this period obtained the degree of doctor of medicine from the Harvard Medical School (1853). [254] See the “Manual of Gymnastic Exercises, Arranged on Hygienic Principles and Adapted to Music. Compiled by E. H. Barlow, Captain of the Class of ’66, Barrett Gymnasium, Amherst College” (Amherst, 1863). A second edition was published in 1866, and a third in 1875. It will be recalled that in 1864 Amherst College conferred on Dio Lewis the honorary degree of Master of Arts.