Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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About 300 entries have been made for the winter track carnival in the Hemenway Gymnasium tomorrow and Saturday. As compared with the entry lists of previous years, this number is unusually large. Additional entries in the dormitory relay races may be made in the blue-book at the Gymnasium before 5 o'clock this afternoon. No one who has not taken a strength test since January 1, or who is on probation, will be allowed to compete. All those who have not taken the strength test must do so today between 3 and 5 o'clock...
...admission will be charged, as most of the events will be run off on the board track. The preliminary trials in the three field events, the high jump, 12-pound shot-put, and 16-pound shot-put, will take place in the Gymnasium tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. The first track event, the trial heats of the 40-yard dash, will start promptly at 3 o'clock...
...blue-book will be left in the Gymnasium until tomorrow night for additional entries. Every man who enters the meet must take a strength test unless he has had one since February...
...argument is convincing that these dormitories are not what they should be. Of course they are habitable; at times they are even delightfully comfortable, but we, as Harvard undergraduates, are not proud of them, nor are we content with them. We do not wish to blow up our Gymnasium, but we do wish to see it superseded, just as we wish to see our College dormitories modernized...
Perhaps, after all, our chief ground for complaint is that these things which so intimately concern our daily life do not come up to the standards that we have about us. If we contrast our Yard dormitories and our Gymnasium with our athletic field, our boathouses, the Law and Medical School buildings, and the Union, we recognize at once their inadequacy...