These prejudices are gradually and silently melting away; and it is cheering to see the better feelings of our nature effectively advancing the art to its legitimate place in education, under the guise of gymnastics and callisthenics.
"A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education"
James Gall
No master of callisthenics could have set them up better than their mother's receipt for making good blood, combined with a certain harmony of their systems, had done; nor could a schoolmistress have taught them correcter speaking.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
It was as if they met in a sort of mental gymnasium, fenced with one another, did callisthenics.
"The Real Adventure"
Henry Kitchell Webster