How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie.

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VIII. WHAT A GYMNASIUM MIGHT BE AND DO. Few colleges of any pi’etension have not some sort of a gymnasium—indeed, hold it out to parents as one of the attractions. There is a building, and it has apparatus in it. The former often costs twice as much as needs be; the latter may be well made, and well suited to its purpose, or may not— in fact, more frequently is not. Instead of having apparatus graded, so as to have some for the slim and weak, some for the stout and broad, too often one pair of parallel bars or one size of rowing- weight must suffice for all. Frequently the ap- paratus getting loose or worn, or out of repair, remains so. The director is little more than a janitor, and is so regarded. In many instances ho does so little as to render this opinion a just one. Imperfect ventilation, and in winter lack of proper warmth, help to make it unattractive. The newly- arrived Freshman is generally run down and thin from overwork in preparing himself for college. Many a time, when much work was telling on him,
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