Abstract
AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF the Trustees, August 8th, 1861, Edward Hitchcock, M.D., a graduate of the College and of the Medical School of Harvard University … was appointed professor [of hygiene and physical education] in this department [of physical culture]. And in his first report to the Trustees, Dr. Hitchcock remarks: “I am agreeably surprised that the interest has been kept up during the year in this department, as it certainly has… . During a portion of the exercises, I urge … the necessity of introducing playful exercises, such as running in grotesque attitudes, singing college songs, &c. Sometimes this may seem boisterous and undignified, but it seems desirable to me that a portion of the animal spirits should be worked off inside the stone walls of the gymnasium, under the eye of a college officer, rather than out of doors, rendering night hideous… .”
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