Pioneers of modern physical training . arged, the titlewas changed to The Special Kinesiology of EducationalGymnastics. His small Handbook of School Gymnasticsof the Szvedish System was ready in 1891. Among hismore important papers were Hozv Gymnastics Are Taughtin Szveden (1890), a series on The Scientific Aspect ofSzvedish Gymnastics (1890-92), The Necessity of Physi-cal Education and the Means of Introducing It into Ameri-can Schools (1891), Modifications of the Szicdish Systemof Gymnastics to Meet American Conditions (1892), andSzicdisJi Gymimstics z-s. German (1893). Four of theseare incl
Pioneers of modern physical training . arged, the titlewas changed to The Special Kinesiology of EducationalGymnastics. His small Handbook of School Gymnasticsof the Szvedish System was ready in 1891. Among hismore important papers were Hozv Gymnastics Are Taughtin Szveden (1890), a series on The Scientific Aspect ofSzvedish Gymnastics (1890-92), The Necessity of Physi-cal Education and the Means of Introducing It into Ameri-can Schools (1891), Modifications of the Szicdish Systemof Gymnastics to Meet American Conditions (1892), andSzicdisJi Gymimstics z-s. German (1893). Four of theseare included in his Columbian Collection of Essays onSzvedish Gymnastics (1893). The first number of thePosse Gymnasium lournal (monthly) was issued in Decem- 65 ber of 1893, and for four years thereafter nearly every num-ber contained at least one contribution from his pen. BaronPosses death occurred on the 18th of December, 1895, butas late as 1905 the Journal was still publishing material se-lected or prepared from his literary remains. 66. ^^J^.H-^^ Edward M. Hartwell _ XIV. Dr. Edward Mussey Hartwell. The Boston Conference in the interest of Physical Train-ing, held in November of 1889, is a landmark that growsin significance as the years give perspective. Leading edu-cators attended its sessions, and the published report ofpapers and discussions reached a larger audience. Germanand Swedish gymnastics, .the systems employed at AmherstCollege and Harvard University, the claims of militarydrill, physical training for purposes of emotional expression,and for mental and moral quickening—these were all setforth by able champions. But the first place on the program,after the opening remarks by Commissioner Harris, wasassigned to a judge and not an advocate, to a trained biolo-gist and thorough scholar, able to speak with authorityregarding the efifects of exercise upon body and mind^familiar with the history of this phase of education at homeand abroad, and made acquainted with the va
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