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COULD the Swan of Mantua visit Cambridge, he would have occasion to remark, in the words of the dog's-meat man, "Times is changed." Although the professors love their disciples, no doubt, as truly as did any pedagogue on the banks of the Po, we are no longer such a necessity to them during the dog-days as their mothers' milk, although in these days of Ridge's "Food for Infants" and competitive examinations for women, this article has gone sadly out of fashion. Any true advocate of progress would blush to remember that he had ever been aught...
...building, and make it simply an enlarged and better illustrated section of the present Gymnasium, which is so defective in plan, furnishing, and superintendence. If it may be permitted us to breathe a wish in this matter, it would be that a Professor of Hygiene might be appointed, - a man of courage as well as sound learning, - who should lecture to the students and be their adviser; a man who could advise the crews in training, and watch that no man overstepped the limits of his physical powers; a man who could tell the round-shouldered, hollow-chested, crooked-legged...
Then there should be a superintendent of the Gymnasium, directly subject to the Professor of Hygiene. He should be a good man and an accomplished gymnast, to teach the proper way of executing the prescribed exercises, see that no one undertakes rash feats, and with tact and presence of mind enough to apply immediate remedies in case of accident. He should be competent to teach sparring, fencing, and wrestling, in classes as well as by private lessons, and be an intelligent gentleman, able and ready to carry out the directions of his superior officer, and one with whom the students...
...with few equals, has devoted himself to exercise instead of drugs in the practice of his profession, and is meeting with deserved success. Mr. Ferris of Boston is known to very many of the Harvard students and graduates as an admirable superintendent and gymnast as well as an excellent man...
Amherst has in the past fourteen years done much, under the able leadership of the devoted Dr. Hitchcock, to improve the physical (and with it the moral) well being of the college students; but a man single-handed, with no very good gymnasium or apparatus, and without the pecuniary resources Harvard can command, cannot do what might easily be done in the Hemenway Gymnasium, if only the authorities might be induced to take the wise course...