The trees that seemed so large, the gymnastic feats that were so extraordinary, the boy that made a snapper of his handkerchief,--have all lost their greatness and their dread.
All other arts which have to do with the body are servile and menial and illiberal; and gymnastic and medicine are, as they ought to be, their mistresses.
It opens with a view of the Circus in ancient Rome, and various gymnastic exercises, combats of gladiators, of athletes, and ends with a chariot race with real horses.
Since the Civil War the development of the gymnastic system has been rapid, and now practically every first-class college has its gymnasium, attendance upon which is compulsory, and some have their stadium and natatorium.
This interest was felt in the United States, and simple gymnastic apparatus was set up at Harvard and Yale in 1826.
The apparatus periods referred to include work on the conventional pieces of gymnastic apparatus, with the addition of chest weights, an indoor track, and a swimming pool.
One who teaches or practicesgymnastic exercises; the manager of a gymnasium; an athlete.
Athletic or disciplinary exercises; the art of performing gymnastic exercises; also, disciplinary exercises for the intellect or character.
Gymnasiums are not always available for the average boy who likes exercise and who would like to learn the tricks on horizontal and parallel bars, horse and rings, which all young athletes are taught in regular gymnastic courses.
Most gymnasiums have two: one adjustable bar for various exercises and a high bar for gymnastic work.
The interior of the Highfield Athletic and Gymnastic Club was severely free from anything in the shape of luxury and ornament.
Far away from the comfortable glare of Broadway, in a place of disheveled houses and insufficient street-lamps, there stands the old warehouse which modern enterprise has converted into the Highfield Athletic and Gymnastic Club.
Another name for him was Agoneus, the patron of gymnastic exercises, of commerce, and of executive ability.
The Greek imagination was extravagantly mastered by physical excellence; this is proved by the almost inconceivable value attached to gymnastic merit.
Passing for a moment to minor accomplishments, we find that Charlemagne excelled in athletic and gymnastic exercises; he was a pancratiast.
The public performers of different kinds of gymnastic feats often make a great deal of money; but they sometimes break their necks, and frequently injure their health by over-exertion.
Illustration] In Europe and this country very remarkable gymnastic performers have appeared before the public.
This column consisted of the Chasseurs, coming to receive their standard from the hands of Louis Philippe, and speeding through the streets with their gymnastic step.
In a few seconds we found ourselves on the rocks, delighted to exchange the monotonous mode of progression compulsory on snow for the varied gymnastic exercises demanded on rocks.
They say one gets used to everything, but this I do deny; I should never have got used to that berth, for entering or leaving it was a gymnastic and painful puzzle.
The simplest, and in many respects the most generally useful, of all gymnastic apparatus is the dumb-bell.
Among the Romans of the republic, the games in the Campus Martius, the duties of camp life, and the enforced marches and other hardships of actual warfare, served to take the place of the gymnastic exercises required by the Greeks.
I was once induced to inquire why Perseus made his appearance to them alone, and why they were distinguished from the rest of Egypt by the celebration of gymnastic exercises.
Upon this occasion they have every variety of gymnastic exercise.
The duties of the former officers are declared by their name, of their number we know nothing; of the latter there were five, and their business was to inspect the gymnastic exercises.
The gymnastic dancing was no where so much practised as at Sparta, where the ancient connexion between the musical school and the palaestra, and of both with the military exercises,(1564) was more strictly maintained than in any other state.
At Sparta the chief object of the Gymnopaedia was to representgymnastic exercises and dancing in intimate union, and indeed the latter only as the accomplishment and end of the former.
Dancing, when it did not merely accompany the time of the music, inclined either to gymnastic display or to mimicry; that is, it either represented bodily activity, or it was meant to express certain ideas and feelings.
The gymnastic war-games, which were peculiar to the Cretans and Spartans, still remained to be noticed as a characteristic feature of the Doric education.
But we must return to the subject whence we digressed, the connexion between gymnastic exercises and dancing.
The Doric race, to whom the elevation of gymnastic contests into great national festivals was principally owing, were probably likewise the first who introduced crowns in lieu of other prizes of victory.
The Persian spy found the Spartans in the evening before the battle of Thermopylae employed, some in gymnastic exercises, and some in arranging their hair,(1222) which they always wore long after their entrance into manhood.
No, was the answer, she has not been for some time, as she was beginning to get quite a serious curvature of the spine, so now she goes regularly to a gymnastic doctor.
I have before stated that in large crowded cities, gymnastic training, systematically pursued as a study, is the only thing which seems possible to be done, and most assuredly will be beneficial wherever it is introduced.
These exercises in measure analysis have also been particularly useful in their application to gymnastic exercises.
Exercises on the plane for the cardinal points, with various gymnastic and guessing games.
It was a case of perfectly interpretative "gymnastic rhythm.
Little by little walking can be produced if the child is taken away from the bars and supported with a simple gymnastic belt.
After these military and gymnastic exhibitions, they formed a grand assembly, and the chiefs, as usual, made long speeches in rotation.
This time I was not to be deceived by a gymnastic performance, however interesting.
The Roman, though little inferior in gymnastic exercises, kept strictly to the privacy of the palaestra; and for a patrician to appear in public as a charioteer is stigmatized by the satirist as a mark of shameless effrontery.
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