YOUNG WOMAN'S JOURNAL. ORGAN OF THE Y. L. M. I. ASSOCIATIONS. VOL. VI. SALT LAKE CITY, OCTOBER, 1894. PHYSICAL CULTURE. DR. DUDLEY A. SARGENT. DR. DUDLEY A. SARGENT, director of the Hemenway Gymnasium, was born in Belfast, Me., September 28, 1849. He is of Puritan blood, counting John Rogers among his ancestors. No. 1. early education was gained at the public schools in Belfast, where he learned rapidly in spite of the fact that circumstances compelled him to work out of school hours to help his mother in the family support. A number of his school His father, who died when he companions went to a boarding Director of Hemenway Gymnasium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and President of the American Association for the Advancement of Physical Education, was six years old, was a man of great physical strength, and his mother, though not remarkable for strength, had a vigorous constitution and great endurance. During Dr. Sargent's boyhood he showed singular vitality, and was fond of outdoor sports and all sorts of physical exercise. His school at Topsham, near Brunswick, while he was in the high school, and while there became greatly interested in gymnastic exhibitions at Bowdoin College. On their return to Belfast they organized a gymnastic club, of which he became a member. The need of working out of |