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| Charles Beck, German theology and gymnastics instructor 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 View Book Page : Book Viewer About This Book : Catalog Entry View All Images : All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: formed the acquaintance of Dr. WilliamEllery Channing, and decided to prepare himself for theministry with the assistance of that distinguished Unitarianclergyman. In the summer of 1828 he was regularlyadmitted as a candidate, though not ordained until eightyears later, and besides acting as supply in various churcheswas engaged for longer periods by the First UnitarianChurch in New York City and by a parish in East Lexing-ton, near Boston. On January 13, 1840, three days aftercompleting a course of six lectures on German literature inNew York, he left that city on the steamboat Lexingtonfor Boston. About fifty miles out, on the Sound, the vesselcaught fire, and Follen, together with all but four of thecrew and passengers, met his death. Charles Sumner, whohad been his pupil, wrote to a friend, Dr. Follen is gone;able, virtuous, learned, good, with a heart throbbing to allthat is honest and humane; and Dr. Channing said of himthat he was, on the whole, the best man he had ever known. Text Appearing After Image: Charles Beck Vlll. Charles Beck* One of the most important and successful educationalinnovations of its time was the Round Hill School (1823-1834) at Northampton, Mass. It occupied the site of thepresent Clarke School for the Deaf, and the founders wereJoseph Green Cogswell and George Bancroft, both Harvardgraduates and tutors, who had also received their doctorsdegrees (Ph.D.) at Gottingen, in Germany, and hadtraveled extensively in that country and elsewhere in Europe.The prospectus, issued in June of 1823, states that wewould also encourage activity of body as a means of promot-ing firmness of constitution and vigor of mind, and shallappropriate regularly a portion of each day to healthfulsports and gymnastic exercises. In a descriptive circulardated March 25, 1826, they claim that they were the firstin the new continent to connect gymnastics with a purelyliterary establishment. It may be impossible, they say,to engraft on any modern nation a system of physicaleducation correspondi Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.| https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14783478932/ Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/pioneersofmodern10leon/pioneersofmodern10leon#page/n37/mode/1up| Internet Archive Book Images| | Datei:Charles Beck, German theology and gymnastics instructor.jpg
| Charles Beck, German theology and gymnastics instructor 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 View Book Page : Book Viewer About This Book : Catalog Entry View All Images : All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: formed the acquaintance of Dr. WilliamEllery Channing, and decided to prepare himself for theministry with the assistance of that distinguished Unitarianclergyman. In the summer of 1828 he was regularlyadmitted as a candidate, though not ordained until eightyears later, and besides acting as supply in various churcheswas engaged for longer periods by the First UnitarianChurch in New York City and by a parish in East Lexing-ton, near Boston. On January 13, 1840, three days aftercompleting a course of six lectures on German literature inNew York, he left that city on the steamboat Lexingtonfor Boston. About fifty miles out, on the Sound, the vesselcaught fire, and Follen, together with all but four of thecrew and passengers, met his death. Charles Sumner, whohad been his pupil, wrote to a friend, Dr. Follen is gone;able, virtuous, learned, good, with a heart throbbing to allthat is honest and humane; and Dr. Channing said of himthat he was, on the whole, the best man he had ever known. Text Appearing After Image: Charles Beck Vlll. Charles Beck* One of the most important and successful educationalinnovations of its time was the Round Hill School (1823-1834) at Northampton, Mass. It occupied the site of thepresent Clarke School for the Deaf, and the founders wereJoseph Green Cogswell and George Bancroft, both Harvardgraduates and tutors, who had also received their doctorsdegrees (Ph.D.) at Gottingen, in Germany, and hadtraveled extensively in that country and elsewhere in Europe.The prospectus, issued in June of 1823, states that wewould also encourage activity of body as a means of promot-ing firmness of constitution and vigor of mind, and shallappropriate regularly a portion of each day to healthfulsports and gymnastic exercises. In a descriptive circulardated March 25, 1826, they claim that they were the firstin the new continent to connect gymnastics with a purelyliterary establishment. It may be impossible, they say,to engraft on any modern nation a system of physicaleducation correspondi Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.| https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14783478932/ Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/pioneersofmodern10leon/pioneersofmodern10leon#page/n37/mode/1up| Internet Archive Book Images| | Datei:Pioneers of modern physical training (1910) (14783478932).jpg
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