All the sports of the gymnasia were either games, or special exercises for the contests of the public festivals.
The hardy Spartans, who valued most the qualities of bravery, endurance, and self-denial, used the gymnasia only as schools of training for the more sanguinary contests of war.
Some of thegymnasia were dedicated to Apollo, god of physicians.
But in their proper classical interpretation the public gymnasia were, to a great extent, places set apart for physical education and training.
As our gymnasia are usually private, and only moderately frequented, the gymnast is not stimulated to those exertions which society and competition would arouse.
Our larger towns and cities still support gymnasia of greater or less size and perfectness.
Gymnasia are somewhat patronized by the civilians.
Of course in gymnasia special dresses are worn; but, as absolute freedom is required, the model dress of the gymnast should be easily stowable in a glove-box.
There, by a steady attendance at the gymnasia chapel and the reading of the apostles in a stentorian voice, he turned upon himself the attention of an old bigot of a general's wife.
This circle was initiated in the town of Skorodozh some three years before by the gymnasia instructor Bodeyev and the town school instructor Voronok.
There were also several students, college girls, and grownup schoolboys from the higher gymnasia classes.
And if you wish to go beyond the primary course, then you'll have to procure for yourself a private gymnasia or a professional school, or, if you like, a commercial one.
But where these considerations are negligible, substantial uniformity is to be found in the equipment of gymnasia not designed for specifically medical purposes.
Gymnastics had already for several years been an essential part of the training of army recruits with exceedingly beneficial results, and gymnasia had been established at Aldershot and other military centres.
Before we proceed to a somewhat more detailed, but brief, account of Hippocrates, it is necessary to say a word or two of the ancient gymnasia of Greece, which were used long before the Asclepiadae had practiced or begun to teach.
The Catholic students in the gymnasia are mostly candidates for the priesthood.
We must not wonder, therefore, if the instruction given in the elementary schools, and the gymnasia is incomplete and almost barren of good effect.
Now and always the universities and gymnasia are and have been for the most part attended only by pupils of the class of petty nobles, or of those of the priests and burghers.
I have visited many gymnasia in Russia, and I have always seen in them the same effects flowing from the same causes.
When their studies are completed they are appointed professors in the gymnasia and other schools.
The course of instruction in the gymnasia was more extensive, and embraced special mathematics, logic, rhetoric, and physics.
Palaistras and gymnasia were provided for the manoeuvres, stadia and hippodromes for the public contests and races.
The conclusion of the training-system in the gymnasia usually occurs before the nineteenth or twentieth year.
Nambiyassans were instructors in arms in days of old, and kalari or gymnasia are owned by them even at the present day.
Those who were designed for this profession frequented, from their most tender age, the Gymnasiaor Palæstræ, which were a kind of academies maintained for that purpose at the public expense.
They practised a kind of novitiate in the Gymnasia for ten months, to accomplish themselves in the several exercises by assiduous application; and this they did in the presence of such, as curiosity or idleness conducted to look on.
The Three Courses of Study in the Gymnasia of Norway Showing Weekly Hours Given to Each Subject.
For example, all graduates from the private gymnasia pass the same examinations for artium as those who complete the work of the state gymnasia and enter the university on exactly the same footing.
In the gymnasia practically all of them are men, but in the middle schools there are many women teachers.
The students at this school come chiefly from the scientific course offered in the gymnasia or from the several preparatory technical schools of Norway.
The gymnasia draw from a wider territory than do the middle schools because they are fewer and farther apart.
Latin is included in the curricula of only about one-half of the gymnasia of Norway.
The gymnasia of Norway take up the work where the middle schools leave off, and provide three years of instruction which concludes with the examen artium.
The small and relatively poor Scandinavian nations have admirably fittedgymnasia in connection with their Folkschule, which correspond to our elementary schools.
Not only have we been relatively slow in adopting properly systematised exercises, but even to the present day the majority of elementary schools are without properly fitted gymnasia and duly qualified teachers.
If he, or she, has greater ambitions, there aregymnasia for boys and high schools for girls.
To the same societies we owe the high standard which the girls' gymnasia attained since they were opened in the sixties.
It contained the arms, the manufactures, and the treasures of six provinces; schools and gymnasia were instituted for the education of youth; and the liberal arts were publicly taught in the Greek and Latin languages.
The Gymnasia of Athens were many, but the most remarkable were the Lyceum, Academia, and Cynosarges.
The Gymnasia were places of exercise, and received their name from the Greek word signifying naked, because the contending parties wore nothing but drawers.
Footnote 312: The Gymnasia were places of exercise, and received their name from the Greek word signifying naked, because the contending parties wore nothing but drawers.
Even Protestants removed their children from distant gymnasia to confide them to the care of the Jesuits.
Next follow the building for gymnasia and schools; these will be in the midst of the city, and outside will be riding-schools and archery-grounds.
In the next place, there must be directors of music and gymnastic; one class of them superintending gymnasia and schools, and the attendance and lodging of the boys and girls--the other having to do with contests of music and gymnastic.
There are several girls' gymnasia in Germany which testify to the demand for higher education.
The girls from all these gymnasia are debarred from taking any of the official examinations for which their studies have prepared them.
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