Word: gym
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Associate Dean Watson yesterday met complaints of men quartered in the gym with orders for a general housecleaning and an announcement that University employees will transport the trunks of men moving out of the Blockhouse...
Harvard's forgotten men--inhabitants of the gym barracks--got a chance to air their gripes last night in a meeting at the Union...
Fenn said that the best way for the men to get action was through a petition to Associate Dean Watson similar to the one submitted by the inhabitants of the gym last fall...
...many married students formerly living outside the College, the invulnerability of men for draft during their current year, and the discontinuance of enforced commuting. Coupled with less important changes such as the drop in the mortality rate, these shifts have brought about temporary housing of Freshman in the gym and placed extra men in rooms throughout the College...
Means of improvement of the unhappy situation are necessarily slow and difficult if any but an arbitrary system of assignment is attempted. The housing authorities have however, profited by two similar autumns, and the discomfort, particularly in the case of the Freshmen in the gym, has been much alleviated. The beds are more comfortable, study conditions better, and the closing hour of the Boylston Reading Room has been extended from 10 to 11 o'clock in the evening...