Speaking to the American Institute of Instruction at Norwich, Connecticut, in August 1858, Calthrop, an English-born clergyman formerly of Trinity College, Cambridge, argued that education must draw out the body as well as the mind and spirit. Humour, fable and examples from English school games enliven a case for exercise in American schools.
An early American argument for physical education, printed by the Institute in five thousand copies. Download the free EPUB.