Note 249 — Chapter XXIII · PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.

Follansbee Goodrich Welch was born at Concord, N. H., June 8, 1843, and graduated from Dio Lewis’s Normal Institute for Physical Education. In addition to his duties at Yale he served as “Instructor in Physical Culture” at Dartmouth College from the spring of 1867 through the year 1867-68, and instructor in gymnastics at Wesleyan University 1868-69, besides conducting for a number of years an eight weeks summer “Normal Institute for the Training of Teachers in Dio Lewis’s New Gymnastics,” at the Glenwood Ladies’ Seminary, West Brattleboro, Vermont. In 1869 he published “Moral, Intellectual, and Physical Culture; or the Philosophy of True Living” (New York, Wood & Holbrook), Part I of which deals with “The Gymnasium,” and Part II with “the Dio Lewis System of Gymnastics.” The New York Homeopathic Medical College conferred on him the degree of M.D. in 1870, and he afterwards practised medicine in New York City.