Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stormy weather, about twenty candidates for the freshman eleven appeared on Jarvis at the appointed time yesterday afternoon. Captain Sears of the 'varsity, and G. Perry, '89, coached them. After regular practice on the field, the men were put through rush line and tackling practice in the gymnasium. The following men are candidates for the rush line: Rantoul, Cook, Churchill, Allen, Cheeney, Freeman, Clark, Hawes. Berry, R. Agassiz, Putnam, Travis, Barter, Henry and Brooks; for quarterback, Mann, Neff, Preston; for half-back, Hill, Draper, Carpenter; for full-back, Barter and Forbes. The men are all unusually light and will have...
...Resolved, That whenever the necessary means are provided for the erection of a suitable gymnasium for the use of the students, this corporation will be prepared to give a suitable lot for the purpose...
...several years past the need of a new gymnasium has been strongly felt at Yale. The size of the present building is wholly inadequate to the ever-increasing wants of the college. The apparatus, though of the latest pattern is not in sufficient quantity to warrant many students exercising at the same time. Dissatisfaction with the present state of affairs has resulted in the raising of a fund for the erection of a new gymnasium, which is to be larger than the old and to be centrally located. Professor Richards, who has the collection of funds in charge, has announced...
...have been more or less mistaken. It is too often the case that at the beginning of a session young men are animated for a week or two by a very lively zeal to participate in athletic sports which in a brief period wears itself out; after which the gymnasium is for the most part deserted. What is more likely to happen is the selection of a limited number of athletes, who are supposed to possess more than usual skill, and who are charged with representing the college in their match games with other institutions. Those not thus selected will...
...Gymnasium-Messrs. Arthur Peirce Butler, Charles Mills Cabot, Charles Francis Choate, Jr., Stephen Russell Hurd Codman, Kendall Fox Crocker, Henry Merrihew Plummer, John Earle Reynolds, John Hunter Sedwick, Daniel Kimball Snow, William Stuart Spaulding and Nathan Howard Winslow...