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SWEDISH GYMNASTICS.
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In all the State Colleges of at least five classes in the kingdom there are
well-lighted and airy gymnastic halls, in which the exercises are conducted by
teachers trained at the Central Gymnastic Institute. According to the statutes in
force, every pupil whom the physician has declared sufficiently strong must practise
gymnastics at least half an hour daily, besides which the pupils in the 6th and
lower 7th classes must have two hours’ instruction per week in fencing.
Medical Gymnastics, Central Institute, Stockholm.
In all the Training colleges for Common school teachers a staff of equally
well trained leaders is employed to conduct gymnastic exercises for the future
teachers, who during their 4-years’ course are also trained to teach gymnastics in
the Common schools, where gymnastic exercises are a compulsory subject. — Also at
the People’s High Schools the introduction of gymnastics has begun in earnest
in spite of the entirely private character of those establishments. Ten of these
have now their own gymnastic halls. — Besides, there exist in the larger towns
privately organized gymnastics at so called gymnastic clubs, as well for women
as for men, also for individuals who do not belong to any organized association
but practise gymnastics only for the benefit of their health.
In the army and navy the same system is applied in schools of all grades,
for recruits, corporals, non-commissioned and commissioned officers. Lastly it may
be added that everywhere in Sweden the Ling system is followed.
With regard to foreign countries it may be stated that medical gymnastics
have been more widely propagated than the other branches. Pedagogical
gym-Swtda». 23
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