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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) 3 1 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)
e of its opening may be briefly stated: It was the largest gymnasium in point of floor-room, air space, and the number of its dressing-rooms, lockers, and pieces of apparatus then in the country. The recent addition given to the university by Mr. Hemenway has placed the Harvard Gymnasium again at the head of the list in all of these particulars. The Hemenway was the first gymnasium in the country to have special rooms devoted to rowing, baseball, fencing, sparring, trophies, records, photograpis becoming more marked every year, and efforts are being made to extend the athletic facilities of the university so that larger numbers of students can enjoy the advantages of practicing out-door exercises. Through the munificence of Mr. Augustus Hemenway, Colonel H. L. Higginson, Mr. G. W. Weld, and a few other graduates, the general plant for exercise, physical training, and athletic sports has been greatly augmented within the past few years. It is doubtful if any institution in the wo