Instructions in All Kinds of Gymnastic Exercises (extract)

9 run over the ground, in this stated time, it must be graduallyreduced; for instance, first to four and then to threeminutes. 2. Another piece of ground should be run over, at amoderate pace,during ten minutes, which time must also be gradually reduced as before. In these exercises, the teacher must not reduce the stated times, so as to render the exercise too violent for the weakest of his pupils. He should also pay particularatten­ tion to their relative strength, in order to judge which of them are capableof complet­ ing the more difficult exercises. 3. In order to practisethe pupils in turn­ ing, the teacher should form a figure upon the exercise-ground, similar to the annexed: a. In running through this, they would be necessitated to turn the body suddenly in different directions. The direction to be taken by the runners, must be frequently