A guide to the history of physical education
CHAPTER XXIII.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.
In the Period of 1830 264
In the Eighteen-fifties 264
Harvard, Yale, and Amherst Build Gymnasia 268
Amherst Establishes a Professorship of Hygiene and Physical Education 272
Other Colleges in the Eighteen-sixties and -seventies 274
The Land-grant Act of 1862, and Military Training 276
Beginning of Rowing, Baseball, Football, and Track Athletics 277
Dr. Sargent at Hemenway Gymnasium, Harvard University 279
Progress since 1880 284