Pioneers of modern physical training . were expressed to me, by several of the most zealousand able friends and advocates of physical education, totranslate a work which would be suitable .... or compileone I did not doubt to which of the two ways pro-posed to give the preference. Beck left the Round Hill School in 1830, to take part inestablishing another boys school, in Phillipstown, on theHudson River opposite West Point. Two years later he 35 was elected University Professor of Latin, and PermanentTutor, in Harvard University, and for eighteen years dis-charged the duties of that position
Pioneers of modern physical training . were expressed to me, by several of the most zealousand able friends and advocates of physical education, totranslate a work which would be suitable .... or compileone I did not doubt to which of the two ways pro-posed to give the preference. Beck left the Round Hill School in 1830, to take part inestablishing another boys school, in Phillipstown, on theHudson River opposite West Point. Two years later he 35 was elected University Professor of Latin, and PermanentTutor, in Harvard University, and for eighteen years dis-charged the duties of that position in a manner which wonthe respect land affectionate regard of pupils and belonged to several important learned societies, and in1865 received from the university the degree of LL. resigning his chair, and until his death, which occurredsuddenly, he was occupied with literary pursuits and classicalstudies, and also held various offices of public trust. Fortwo years he represented Cambridge in the State Francis Lieber IX. Francis Lieber. A third German refugee who assisted in the first intro-duction of the Jahn gymnastics into America was FrancisLieber (1800-18T2), Follens successor at the Boston Gym-nasium in the summer of 1827. Lieber was born in BerHn,the tenth among twelve children of a dealer in 1811 he became acquainted with Jahn at the Hasenheideoutdoor gymnasium. Although too young to join his olderbrothers in the first campaign of the War of Liberation, uponNapoleons return from Elba he entered (1815) a volunteerregiment of infantry, took part in the battle of Ligny, wasseverely wounded at Namur, and later sufirered from aprolonged siege of typhus fever in the hospitals at Aix-la-Chapelle and Cologne. After his return home he becameone of the most ardent and tireless of Jahns pupils, ac-companying him on the month-long excursions to the Islandof Riigen in 1817 and to Breslau the following year. In July of 1819, a few days af
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