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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uccessful venture financially andbrought him also the acquaintance of prominent men in allparts of the country. In September of 1833 he moved fromBoston to Philadelphia, charged by the trustees of theGirard Fund with the preparation of a plan for the collegeof that name. Then for twenty-one years, beginning in1835, he was Professor of History and Political Economyin South Carolina College, at Columbia. In 1857 ColumbiaCollege in New York City elected him Professor of Historyand Political Science, afterwards transferring him to thechair of Constitutional History and Public Law in its Law School, and here he continued in active service until hisdeath, in 18T2. As a publicist he rose to the very highestrank. At President Lincolns request he drew up the In-structions for the Government of Armies of the UnitedStates in the Field, published by the War Department in1863, and during the Civil War his advice was repeatedlysought by leading statesmen on matters of public and inter-national law.
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Dio Lewis X. Dio Lewis. In the third and fourth decades of the nineteenth centuryfour different systems of physical training had been broughtforward for trial in the United States—the drill and disci-pline of the military academy, the Jahn gymnastics, manuallabor on the farm or in the shop, and calisthenics for girlsand women. The claims of each were pressed by enthusi-astic advocates, and there was no lack of imitators of theeducational institutions in which each had first become in-corporated ; but for various reasons not one of the four wasgenerally adopted or won for itself more than temporaryfoothold. From 1835 till 1860, though educators were in-creasingly alive to the importance of physical training, noone appeared with anything that seemed more likely to meetthe conditions and needs of the time. Then came Dig Lewis(1823-1886) with his new gymnastics for men, women,and children, something definite and practical. His con-tagious enthusiasm created a wave of popular interest th

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