Word: gymnasia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profession which requires a maximum of brute strength has the Dental School decided on compulsory athletics for its members. More probably the authorities realized that the men in the Dental School are peculiarly unfortunate in their relation to athletic facilities, lying as they do far from the gymnasia and squash courts of Cambridge. Students in the Law and Business Schools, as well as those in the graduate schools more closely related to the College, have always found it easy to spend a little time each day in Hemenway or a conveniently located squash court warren...
...worthy of the young men from all parts of the country who man them, and to enable them to compete on at least equal terms with the best equipment furnished to any other service. 105,000,000 dollars is a great deal though, to pay for ten floating gymnasia; it completely beggars the paltry thousands it costs to take the Harvard football team to New Haven...
...first, the relationship of Classical language, art, and philosophy to the German; second, German, French, and English cultural achievements as compared with one another; third, the study of the German language, literature, music, painting, architecture, and philosophy; and fourth, the mathematical and scientific aspect of modern life. The gymnasia, which correspond to the American high school and first half of college, are divided into four types, each covering one of these fields...
...tutor when not teaching the Bowdoinians to flex their limbs, became a Freshman himself. That was in 1871. The next year, Yale College, awakening to the new movement for physical education, sent for Sargent. Without interrupting his studies at Bowdoin, he supervised both the Yale and Bowdoin gymnasia for three years. In 1875, he was graduated by Bowdoin, entered the Yale Medical School, set about formulating his contributions to reliable physical culture...