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 the wrestling-match; or in the foot-race first crossed the finish-line, winners by a finger-length, in the agonizing struggle for fame, the laurel, and the freedom of their city.

Nor has his pen been idle. But from time to time, now in widely read periodical; now in book-form, he has gathered some of the best results of his labors; not only among the students of the university; but of those of his Summer School; of his classes of girls and women; and elsewhere; and has furnished data of peculiar value.

A cursory glance at but a part of Dr. Sargent's work will clearly demonstrate its aim and extensive range in this field:

1. "A Swimming-bath." Harvard Register, January, 1881. 2. Hand-book of Developing Exercises. Boston, 1882. 3. "Health and Strength Papers." Wide Awake. C.Y.F.R.U. Supplement, 1882–83. 4. "Physical Education in Colleges." North American Review, February. 1883. 5. "The Exercise Suitable for a Minister's Life." Abstract. Christian Register, March 15,1883. 6. In Case of Accident. Boston, 1884. 16mo, pp. 125. 7. "The Care of the Body." Christian Union, February 7, 1884. 8. "Physical Training." Public Health Reports and Papers, American Publishing Health Association, pp. ix., 116. 9. "Physical Training in Homes and Training Schools." Journal of Social Science, May, 1884. 10. "Hints on Exercise." Congregationalist, October 16, 1884. 11. "The Evils of the Professional Tendency of Modern Athletics." Journal of Social Science, June, 1885. 12. "Physico-moral Education." Christian Advocate, August 13, 1885. 13. "Practical Talks on the Theories and Principles of Physical Training." Delivered before the Boston Young Men's Christian Union, 1882–85. 14. "The Effect of Military Drill on Boys." Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, September 16, 1886. 15. "The Physical Proportions of the Typical Man." Scribner's Magazine, July, 1887. 16. "The Physical Characteristics of the Athlete." Scribner's Magazine, November, 1887. 17.