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Identifier: pioneersofmodern10leon (find matches)
Title: Pioneers of modern physical training
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Leonard, Fred Eugene, 1866-1922
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: (New York) Physical Directors' Society of the Young Men's Christian Association of North America
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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so widely popular. Dr. Gulick, in summing up his contribution to physicaltraining in the Associations, credits Roberts with havingdeveloped a distinctive style of gymnastic work w^hich isexceedingly simple, is attractive, can be operated in largeclasses, is effective in relation to the vital functions ofdigestion, circulation, and respiration, and which can besuccessfully taught by teachers of mediocre ability. Thewholesome and helpful personality of the man, his unswerv-ing loyalty to his own platform, and the enthusiasm forright living with which he inspires his classes have madehim a notable figure among his colleagues. The HealthHints and other short articles published from time to time,chiefly in the Young Mens Era and other Associationorgans, have been lay sermons on his one text, hygienicbody-building. Among other inventions and improve-ments in gymnasium equipment, we owe to him the indoorshot, the medicine ball, the thin felt mattress, and the feltand canvas running track. 81
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Luther H. Gulick XVI. Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick. Peter Johnson Gulick (1797-1877) was the third of sevensons of a New Jersey farmer, and a descendant of HendrickGuHck, who came to this country from the Netherlands in1653. He graduated from Princeton College in 1825,studied afterwards in Princeton Theological Seminary,married Fanny Hinckley Thomas, of EngHsh ancestry, andin November of 1827 sailed with her from Boston underappointment as a missionary of the American Board. Thefollowing March, only eight years after the opening of themission to the Hawaiian Islands, they reached Honoluluby way of Cape Horn, and in this field he remained in activeservice for forty-six years. Of his eight children one diedduring student days in America, and all the rest became mis-sionaries. Orramel, the second son, went to Japan in 1871,where he was joined later by Theodore Weld and by Julia,the only sister. John Thomas, widely known among biolo-gists for his writings on evolution, was a missionary inChin

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