The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 25
pon him the necessity of making swimming one of the subjectsof compulsory education for the scholars that would come underthe jurisdiction of the new School Boards; when, after a long andexhaustive discussion, in which Mr. Forster fully recognised theimportance of the object sought to be attained… … MAN S WEIGHT IN THE WATER — VARIOUS MODES —— POSITIONS. tunity should have been lost, when boys and girls, of all ages-and conditions, could have been brought under a compulsorysystem, and made to swim in spite of themselves; and it is to behoped that the powers that may yet manage the Committee…
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