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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hartwell, medical director of the gymnasium at Johns Hopkins University is dissatisfied with Dr. Sargent's system and has replaced it by Ling's Swedish system, which in Europe holds the foremost place as a means of physical culture...
...investigations by the various instructors. These gentlemen have not only attended to their official duties but they have with commendable energy pursued their several special lines of study with benefit to a large class of people. Much valuable work has been done by the members of the Astronomical Observatory. Director Edward C. Pickering has issued a short but extremely important document, viz., "The First Annual Report of the Photographic Study of Stellar Spectra conducted at the Harvard College Observatory." Seth Carlo Chandler has written "The Almucator," a volume of 222 pages. In the Medical School the writings have been unusually...
Professor F. W. Putnam, director of the Peabody Museum, gave a lecture last evening in Association Hall, Boston, in the Natural Science Course. His subject was "The Serpent Mound and the Ancient People of the Ohio Valley...
...Seaver, director of the Yale gymnasium, has just completed the physical measurements of the sophomore class and has developed some very interesting facts concerning the effects of training All but four of the class have made recided physical progress during the year, although only a small proportion of the class have taken a regular course of training. The most noticeable increase in the measurements have been in height, girth of in flatted chest and girth of head. A very notable example of the effect of light exercise is in the case of a man, who, during the year, without...
Watson L. Savage, Amherst '82, has been appointed permanent director of this gymnasium. He pursues a similar method of measuring and prescribing exercise to that used in our own gymnasium. The membership of the club is limited to three hundred besides the stockholders. No professional is allowed to be a member of the club...