Footnotes

[282] See “A Full Report of the Papers and Discussions of the (Physical Training) Conference held in Boston in November, 1889. Reported and edited by Isabel C. Barrows” (Boston, 1890).

[283] The numbers of the Posse Gymnasium Journal for February and May, 1920, contain portions of an autobiography by Nissen, covering his early years in Norway. He also published in 1891 an “ABC of the Swedish System of Educational Gymnastics” (Philadelphia, F. A. Davis).

[284] His chief literary work was the “Progressive Gymnastic Day’s Orders, according to the Principles of the Ling System,” first published in Boston in 1890 and reissued in 1892 (New York, etc., Silver, Burdett & Co). Other publications include: “The Place of Physical Training in a Rational Education” (in Boston Conference Report, 1889, pp. 35-41), “The Gymnastic Progression of the Ling System” (Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Physical Education, 5 (1890), pp. 21-35), “The Pedagogical Aspect of Swedish Gymnastics,” read before the American Institute of Instruction at its annual meeting in Bethlehem, N. H., July 8, 1891, (Popular Educator, Boston, 9, 52 and 53, October, 1891), “Some Measurable Results of Swedish Pedagogical Gymnastics” (Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Physical Education, 7 (1892), pp. 207-235), “An Anthropometric Study of the Effects of Gymnastic Training on American Women” (Quarterly Publications of the American Statistical Association, December, 1893, 3, pp. 600-610), “A Diagram of Working Capacity and Resistance as manifest in Gymnastic Exercises” (Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Physical Education, 9 (1895), pp. 11-17), and “Pedagogical Gymnastics” (American Physical Education Review, 2, 81-88, June, 1897).

[285] His publications were: Three articles on “Den svenska gymnastiken och dess representanter i Amerika” (Valkyrian, New York, January, February, and March, 1891, 2, pp. 28-30, 91-94, 138-143), “Mental Growth through Physical Education” (18-page pamphlet, 1893), “The Physical Processes Involved in the Nutrition of Muscle” (Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Physical Education, 10, 1895, pp. 83-89), President’s address at the annual meeting of the Physical Education Society of New York and Vicinity, December 4, 1896 (American Physical Education Review, 2, 1-11, March, 1897), another President’s address (American Physical Education Review, 3, 25-29, March, 1898), “On Group Contests” (American Physical Education Review, 3, 288-294 and 4, 66-72, December, 1898, and March, 1899), “What is Gymnastics” and “Why Do We Teach Gymnastics” (28- and 57-page pamphlets, New York, by the author, 1902 and 1903), and a posthumous volume, “Gymnastic Problems” (New York, Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1917).