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swedish gymnastics.
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by teachers trained at the Central Gymnastic Institute. According to the
statutes in force, every school pupil whom the physician has declared
sufficiently fit must practise gymnastics at least half an hour daily, or four
times a week for 45 minutes, besides which the pupils in the upper forms
must have two lessons per week in fencing, lasting 45 minutes each.
Gymnastics are also compulsory in the secondary schools for girls
throughout the Kingdom, though the majority of these schools have not
daily practice as yet, but content themselves with three lessons a week,
each time for half an hour.
Pedagogic Gymnastic lesson to Lady Pupils, Central Gymnastic Institute, Stockholm.
In all the Training Colleges for elementary school masters and
mistresses, staffs of equally well-trained gymnastic instructors are employed, to
conduct gymnastic exercises for the future teachers, who during their
four-years’ course are also trained to teach gymnastics in the elementary schools,
where gymnastic exercises are a compulsory subject. — Also at the high
schools for the people the introduction of gymnastics has begun in earnest,
in spite of the entirely private character of those establishments.
Twenty-one of these have now their own gymnastic halls. — Besides, in the larger
towns privately organized gymnastic-courses exist at so-called gymnastic
clubs, for women and men alike, also for persons who do not belong to
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