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Sargent (DUDLEY ALLEN an American)

DUDLEY ALLEN, an American physical director, born at Belfast, Me., in 1849. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1875 and from the medical department of Yale in 1878.

From 1879 he was director of the Hemenway Gymnasium at Harvard. From 1881 to 1916 he was director of the Normal School of Physical Training, Cambridge, Mass., and from the latter year was president of the Sargent School for Physical Education. He was the inventor of many pieces of modern gymnasium apparatus. He wrote "Health, Strength and Power" (1904).