Round Hill School

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Round Hill School

gymnasium, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States

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…founded the first American gymnasium, Round Hill School, in Northampton, Massachusetts, and hired German immigrant Charles Beck to teach calisthenics. But the true pioneer was George Barker Windship, a Harvard Medical School graduate (1857) who incorporated apparatus and heavy-lifting movements into an exercise regimen designed to promote the ideal of…
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…founded the first American gymnasium, Round Hill School, in Northampton, Massachusetts, and hired German immigrant Charles Beck to teach calisthenics. But the true pioneer was George Barker Windship, a Harvard Medical School graduate (1857) who incorporated apparatus and heavy-lifting movements into an exercise regimen designed to promote the ideal of…
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