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Identifier: pioneersofmodern10leon (find matches)
Title: Pioneers of modern physical training
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Leonard, Fred Eugene, 1866-1922
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: (New York) Physical Directors' Society of the Young Men's Christian Association of North America
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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Society of Medical Sciences,the Boston Society for IMedical Improvement, the Massa-chusetts Medical Society, the New England Association ofColleges and Preparatory Schools, the National EducationalAssociation, the American Public-Health Association, andthe American Social Science Association; and his articleshave been published in Scrihners Magazine, the Cosmopoli-tan, Putnams Magazine, the Popular Science Monthly, theNorth American Review, the Harvard Graduates Magazine,Education, the Educational Review, and the School Reviezv.Two volumes^ also, have been issued in recent years—Health, Strength and Power in 1904, and two years laterPhysical Education, a collection of twelve papers andessays, some of them new. He was a member of the specialcommittee of observation at the gymnastic festivals of theNorth American Turnerbund in Milwaukee (1893), St.Louis (1897), and Philadelphia (1900), and guest of theGerman Turnerschaft at the great Frankfort Festival in thesummer of 1908. < * 59
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Baron Nils Posse XIII. Baron Nils Posse. The system of medical gymnastics which we owe to thelabors of Pehr Henrik Ling and his successors at the RoyalNormal School of Gymnastics (the Gymnastic Central In-stitute) in Stockholm was brought to the attention of Ameri-cans as long ago as the early fifties. By the end of thatdecade writers on physical education had begun to refer toit under the name of the Swedish movement cure, andauthors of manuals intended for school use were borrowingsome of their exercises from this source. But to meet theneeds of growing boys and girls Ling had also devised asystem of school gymnastics. This had been further elab-orated by his son Hjalmar (1830-1886), and teachers trainedin the Central Institute, or by its graduates, were everywhereusing it in Sweden, in common schools and high schoolsalike. Of the aims, content, and methods of this branchof the Ling gymnastics little or nothing was known inthis country until within the last twenty-five years. Hartvi

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