Word: gym
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take a playing card from the deck of a queer old lady who rules the mountain. No one is conscious of having taken the card. Sometimes if you look hard you can see aces and deuces fall out of the racers boots when they take them off in the gym where everybody sleeps at the end of the day's skiing. The racers never see the card fall out--they are always in a hurry to get to dinners and the fabulous parties at Sigma Etc. that night, and the cards are always swept away by the same janitor...
Colker, a freshman living in Wigglesworth, placed 11th in the still rings competition of the Ivy League Gymnastic Championships last Sunday in Dartmouth's Alumni Gym. Represented only by Colker, Harvard finished last in a field of five, scoring 5.85 points...
Colker said yesterday that the gymnastics facilities in Hemenway Gym are "inadequate," and that more chalk for the gymnasts' hands and a crash mat are needed. However, he said the main problem is the lack of a coach...
...showed us the stairs to the gym. We went up alone, the four of us, and walked onto what was being used as a basketball court, where our team, the Harvard Classics, was already playing against the Billerica squad, which was outfitted in jeans cut off or cuffed to various lengths. They all didn't have a shirt alike so they were playing "skins." Nobody on their team wore a shirt...
...gym was like what was called an "all-purpose room" at my grade school, where the tables you ate lunch on were folded into the wall to clear the floor for basketball games, plays and PTA meetings. A ping pong table and a wooden desk sat on the raised stage at one end of the room. A speed bag, punching bag and pool table filled up the other end. The 50 feet between was marked off for playing basketball...