Pioneers of modern physical training . icalEducation, from the sixth meeting (1891) onward, and thefiles of the American Physical Education Rcziczu revealhow great a service he rendered to physical training in thecountry at large, during these years and also after his direct connection with the work had ceased. In 18!)l-92 he wasPresident of the Association, and again from 1895-99, andhe was author of the plan of reorganization on the basis oflocal and district societies which was adopted in XII. (Physical Training) in the Report of theCommissioner of Education for 1897-98 (Washin
Pioneers of modern physical training . icalEducation, from the sixth meeting (1891) onward, and thefiles of the American Physical Education Rcziczu revealhow great a service he rendered to physical training in thecountry at large, during these years and also after his direct connection with the work had ceased. In 18!)l-92 he wasPresident of the Association, and again from 1895-99, andhe was author of the plan of reorganization on the basis oflocal and district societies which was adopted in XII. (Physical Training) in the Report of theCommissioner of Education for 1897-98 (Washington,1899), and chapter XVII. (On Physical Training) inthat for 1903 (Washington, 1905), give final expressionto the results of his years of study and observation. Thelong series of reports and papers which began in 1885 con-stitute the most scholarly contribution hitherto made to theliterature of physical training in English, and no man inAmerica has done so much to win for physical training aposition of dignity and recognized Robert J. Roberts(From a plwtograph taken in fJte late ^jos.) XV. Robert J. Roberts. In 1SG9, eighteen years after the introduction of theYoung Mens Christian Association into America, the firstAssociation buildings to contain gymnasia were dedicated,in San Francisco and New York, and in the latter cityWilliam Wood took up his duties as the first director of anAssociation gymnasium. By the close of another eighteenyears, when the number of gymnasia reported had increasedto 168, and the paid directors to 50, it had become apparentthat steps must be taken to provide adequately trained lead-ers for this phase of work in individual associations andsome sort of general oversight for the whole country. Ac-cordingly in 1887 a department of physical training wasadded to the Young Mens Christian Association TrainingSchool in Springfield, Mass., a summer school for gym-nasium directors was also opened at that institution, and theInternational Committee est
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