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THE festival recently held at Stockholm in commemoration of the centenary of the death of Per Henrik Ling, the founder of scientific gymnastics, was attended by nearly eight hundred athletes from thirty-four countries, who took part in the many displays of various methods of training and education for fitness. The general opinion of experts was that the standard of efficiency was remarkably high and proved that the principles on which Ling founded his system still offered a firm basis for popular physical education, though the details had undergone considerable modification in recent years. The British delegates at the Lingard and the subsequent gymnastic congress included Mr. Kenneth Lindsay, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, Lord Aberdare and Lord Dawson of Penn as representatives of the National Fitness Council of England and Wales, Lord Burghley, president of the Amateur Athletic Association, and others.
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The Lingard Festival. Nature 144, 591 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144591c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144591c0