Note 240 — Chapter XXIII · PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.

See “Instructions in Gymnastics, containing a full description of more than eight hundred exercises, and illustrated by five hundred engravings. By J. E. D’Alfonce, late Professor in the Military School in St. Petersburgh, and in Paris.” New York, George F. Nesbitt & Co., 1951. The author speaks in the preface of “seven years’ practice with pupils of all ages,” and of “the debt which I owe to America for the freedom I enjoy, and for the hospitality and friendship I have received from her citizens....”