Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...February, Columbia will open her new gymnasium which has cost $500,000. The building includes an exercise hall 170 feet long by 130 feet wide, a handball room, a room for boxing and wrestling, and a swimming and rowing tank which is the best equipped in the world. This tank is semi-circular in form, with a diameter of 100 feet and a depth of from five to ten feet. Electric lights, protected by plate glass and placed on the bottom will illuminate the water in the tank. The crew will use this tank for indoor practice...
BOXING.- Do you want to take boxing lessons? If so there is no better man than Wm. S. Gordon, who has been appointed instructor at the Gymnasium. Lessons at Gymnasium or at rooms. Wm. S. Gordon, New England School of Boxing, 127a Tremont street, Boston...
...work throughout has been very light and no long stretches have been rowed. All rowing has been done in the harbor inside of the bridge. Friday for the first time the tanks in the gymnasium were used, owing to the inclemency of the weather. The work on the harbor will be continued as long as the weather permits...
...very few men appeared at the meeting called yesterday afternoon for candidates for the basket ball team little could be done, but it was decided to organize scrub teams at the gymnasium after the 5 o'clock class this afternoon. These teams will practice regularly on the floor of the gymnasium until the beginning of next week when steps will be taken towards the organization of a regular team. There are basket ball teams at Yale and Amherst and it is hoped that games between all these teams can be arranged later...
BOXING.- Do you want to take boxing lessons? If so there is no better man than Wm. S. Gordon, who has been appointed instructor at the Gymnasium. Lessons at Gymnasium or at rooms. Wm. S. Gordon, New England School of Boxing, 127a Tremont street, Boston. 27tf...