Gymnastics,
women's
- Early physical education
- First instructors
- Physical culture
- Lawn drills
- Curriculum expands
Curriculum expands
For sixty years at Mount Allison's Ladies' College, calisthenics, light gymnastics, physical culture and military drill were the only forms of physical exercise permitted in the curriculum. In 1916, however, that changed with the creation of the Department of Physical Training and Physiology, and the hiring of a new teacher, E. Winnifred Briggs. A graduate of the Sargent School of Physical Education, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Briggs introduced team sports such as field hockey and volleyball, in addition to gymnastics, to the students.
Mount Allison [Ladies' College basketball teams?], 1918
Mount Allison Ladies' College volleyball, between 1919 and 1921
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