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Physical Education

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  • Title: Physical Education
  • Date: 25 June 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00789
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 25 June 1859: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Allison Slowiak Cassandra Jannel Simms Stefan Schöberlein Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Physical Education." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 17 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00789.xml (TEI)
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Physical Education.—

It has long been the custom to speak of this district as far behind the age in many respects, (and, we are sorry to confess it, with a great deal of truth, too,) and in nothing has she been more laggard in adopting (outside of our German friends) than the science of physical education. But we are glad to find that the young men of Williamsburgh are taking a lively interest in this (what ought to be) important branch of education, and as physical is as important as mental exercise, we do not despair of the day arriving when every young man will be a thorough and accomplished equestrian, which with the immense facilities afforded by Snyder's Livery Stables, corner of South 8th and 3d streets, can soon accomplished.

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