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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 6 0 Browse Search
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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Physical Training. (search)
forms part of the rear of the Whitney building on Palmer Street, where forty years later (in 1883) the writer opened a gymnasium for the students of the Harvard Annex, as it was then termed. This private gymnasium was conducted by a man named T. Belcher Kay, who devoted most of his attention to boxing. Parkman, the historian, and many of the men in college at that time, were pupils of Kay, though the gymnasium had no official connection with the university. During this period considerable inKay, though the gymnasium had no official connection with the university. During this period considerable interest was awakened in recreative games, football, baseball, and cricket then being played. College boat-clubs were formed in 1845, and the first boat-house was built in 1846. From this year on, boating was freely engaged in by the students, partly for exercise, but principally for pleasure. Although boat races began as early as 1845, there were no contests with Yale and other colleges until after 1850. During the next decade the seed sown by Harvard was beginning to bear fruit in other ins
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), General Index. (search)
the East Cambridge embankment, 122; Cambridge Field, 122; Rindge Field, 123; four miles of river parkway, 123; the basin of the Charles, 123; Captain's Island, 124; views from the river parkway, 124; Fresh Pond Park, 125; Lowell's description of the Fresh Pond meadows, 125. Parsonage, the, 10. Parson's allowance in 1680, 10. Parsons, Emily E., 277. Peabody, Rev. A. P., 162. Peirce, Prof. Benjamin, remark of, 76. Physical training, 164, 165; Harvard's first attempt, 165-167; Kay's private gymnasium, 167; recreative games, 167; boat races, 167; first game of baseball, 168; Hemenway Gymnasium, 168; Harvard Athletic Association established, 168; football, 168; the old-style gymnasium, 168, 169; the new apparatus, 169; physical examinations, 169; Harvard Athletic Committee, 170; Y. M. C. A. gymnasium, 171; Cambridgeport gymnasium, 171; growth of interest in physical development in the United States, 171; students of physical training at Harvard, 172; influence on the you