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We do not yet have much information on Spanish school sctivities. Our Spanish archive is still quite limited. One activity was gym. We do note a gym class in 1913, we think at a primary school (figure 1). It was identified as Tercer Grau or thirde grade. Grau doesn't sound like Spanish to us, perhaps it was Catalan. It seems to be a drill or exercise. We believe that was fairly common at the time. We know what the Spanish called this, or at least the Catalans--Gimāsia Sueca. That means Swedish gymnastics. Why it was called Sedish gymnastics we do not know. Perhaps there is an association with the Swiss and military precission. (The Swisswere no longer very military oriented, but this was didderent earlier. The Pope is, for example, protected by the famous Swiss Guards.) As a primary school at the time facilities would have been very limited. Thus exercises like this or drill would have been most of the gym program.
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