Word: athleticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yet for all its primitive quaintness, from the time that the first Radcliffe athletic class met in October, 1898 until Mrs. Hemenway's gymnasium opened its doors five years later, only a handful of bloomered lasses turned out for sports classes each term.
Over 220 girls registered for athletic classes. Students, eager to use the empty swimming pool in the basement, collected $1500 to supply the missing plumbing. The pool was filled and 48 girls learned to swim that first year.
Class teams were formed, captains chosen, and intramural meets held. Radcliffe's Athletic Association, then in its incipient stages, suddenly became the most active 'Cliffe organization as the gymnasium became the center of student activities. Class Day dances were permitted in the new building.
As the first thrills wore off, a split occurred in the student body on the issue of the value of athletics. Half remained convinced that "naught but study should enter into a student's curriculum," and looked with disdain upon the gym fiends who went merrily on their athletic way...
Winthrop seemed to show an edge in the semi-finals of the intramural boxing tournament yesterday. Puritans Phil Isenberg at 175 pounds. Hugh Smith at 145, and Ed Riley at 145, are the men to watch in the finals which start at 8:30 p.m. tonight on the Indoor Athletic...