Word: gym
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reproved for a listless workout in the gym, Jack Sharkey, heavyweight wide-mug challenger, blustered "You didn't hear Caruso yodeling high C's on streetcorners, did you? . . ." In the Pennsylvania station, Manhattan, Enrico Caruso was once heard by the late Critic James Gibbons Huneker singing for a flower girl who had asked for his signature...
...what," wondered Old Boys, "what is the old school like nowadays? Are boys what they were when we were there?" The Old Boys had been hearing rumors that "thundermugs" are never thundered on the Gym roof at The Hill nowadays; that "The Coffee-Colored Angel," "Doc" MacNooder and J. Humperdink Stover have no modern counterparts at Lawrenceville; that schoolboys today are Serious, Responsible, Self-governing, Mature...
...Freshman Gym To Move...
J.D.S. Coleman, Yale '27: "Three things are needed at Harvard. Harvard needs a subway under the Charles River to Harvard Square, a new gym, and a football team...
...frankly I am worried. Football isn't the game it used to be when I last hung up my mud-stained moleskins in the Shemokin gym. What with bilateral passes and other sleight-of-hand tricks allowed, and with the goal-posts moved back so the near-sigthed old grad in Section 43 can see them, the game is changed so a forecaster hardly dares to speak...