40 THE BUILDING OF THE BODY. 



Schools for the instruction of teachers have been established by 

 Dr. Sargent at Cambridge, and by Dr. Anderson at Brooklyn and 

 Chautauqua. Graduates of the latter are required to pass exami- 

 nation in physiology, anatomy, hygiene, anthropometry, military 

 methods and the theory and practice of calisthenics and heavy 

 gymnastics. They must give proof of their ability to handle classes, 

 know what to do in case of accidents and be thoroughly posted in all 

 branches of the siibject. The graduates with such an equipment 

 have no difficulty in finding excellent positions. They go to the 

 great private schools and colleges, and their well trained pupils 

 go forth as the apostles of a better order of things. From them 

 springs the impetus which multiplies athletic clubs in our cities 

 and larger towns, spreads the gospel of pure air and exercise among 

 our citizens, demands ventilation and sanitation in our homes, and 

 moves the people with the "strong lever of example." "Within the 

 last ten years the number of students taking regular exercise at the 

 Hemingway Gymnasium has increased from ninety to nearly eleven 

 hundred and there are now in Harvard two hundred and fifty men 

 stronger than the strongest in 1880. 



Both of the large incorporated schools upon the Island pay much 

 attention to this matter, and in the one more recently founded at least 

 the instruction follows the approved methods of the leading educa- 

 tors. 



The work begins with free movements bringing into play every 

 muscle of the body, thence leading to dumb-bells, wands, rings, pul- 

 ley-weights, etc., and finally to the severer work of the gymnasium 

 proper. Since development springs from activity alone, and this so 

 far as possible spontaneous, the work is diversified in many ways, 

 and]healthful emulation excited between rooms, classes, squads and 

 indivduals. 



"With these exercises pursued continuously and systematically, there 

 comes to every pupil who is able to follow them, the sturdy limbs, 

 the ample lungs, the strong and steady heart, and that easy poise 

 and carriage of the body which tells of the healthy action and har- 

 monipus relation of all the parts. With these acquired in early 

 manhood and womanhood a very little will keep them so, and the 

 momentum of this superb condition will carry one through the stress 



