The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1883-12-26
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/ Act of incorporation from the Mass
|achu5sets Legislature, he placed his
scheme before the celebrated DR..
Walter Claiming, Dr. Thomas Hos
kins and other well-known medical
men. The two gentlemen named,
and others, entered heartily into the
work Dr. Channng and Dr. Hos
kins both became active teachers or
professors in DR.. Lewis's sChoo
Within seven years, more than four
hundred persons were graduated
from the Boston Normal School, and,
bearing its diploma, with the name
Of Dio Lewis as its President, went
out into all the land, teaching the
new school of physical training.
Among these graduates was the adj
mirable gentlemen and scholar,
Moses Colt Tyler, now professor in
Cornell University. He went abroad,
remaining several years in London
introducing the 'Dio Lewis Gymnas-
tics" Prof Tyler's lectures and his
contributions to the English maga-
zines on the new school Of body cul-
ture, constitute the finest portion of
the literature of the new movement.
In one of Prof Tyler's papers, in a
leading English Magazine,o occurs this
paragraph
"The movement of thought in
America toward physical culture l.
thus organized upon a profound and
abiding basis. An impulse has been
given which vibrates through a pop
ulation of twenty millions; this i'm
pulse cannot die. And Of
this vast and beneficial movement,
Dio Lewis stands clearly at the head.
To him the people are looking as to
an apostle and guide. He has inau
gurated in America a great national
reform, as distinct, as influential, as
glorious, as that which was wrought
in Germany by SaIzman and Jahu, or
IN Sweden by the poet am gymnas-
iarch Ling"
Another int -sting phase Of DR..
Lewis'5 work is found in The great
seminary which he established at
Lexington, Mass.
His object was to illustrate the
possibilities in the physical develop
ment of girls during their school life.
His buildings accommodating 200
persons, were placed upon the first
battle field of the Revolutionary war.
A large corps of the best teachers in
mathematics, sciences, languages,
belle letters, and music to be found
in the country, were engaged, and
the opening announced. The school
soon grew TO one hundred and fifty
young women, gathered from all
parts of the country, including the
Pacific Coast, Central America and
the West Indies. They came to see
what could be done by the new
methods for their nervous enfeebled
bodies. The marvellous triumPhs OF
this institution during the years
which Dr. Lewis devoted to its man
agement, he gives in the "NOrth
| American Review for Dec 1889. AS
he says in that paper hundreds OI
grateful parents are famiIi With the
facts, Girls who came unable to as
cend a single flight Of stairs without
suffering, in a few months were able
to walk five or ten miles without in
convenience.
In the course of his twenty-fOu
years residence in Boston, DR.. Levi
published nine volumes on the var
| ious aspects Of the health Of the hu
man body, some of which like "Ou
| Girls" "Our Digestion" and "Weal
Lungs" have had enormous sales.
DR.. Lewis has now removed t,
the city of New York, to establish
large monthly magazine, to b.
called "Dio Lewis's Monthly" ant
to be devoted to Sanitary and Socia
/ Science, This will be the crownin
work Of his long life of labor in tn
Interest of better bodies for Ameri
, can men and women.