Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Classes in physical training open to all members of the University, will be held at the Hemenway Gymnasium beginning next Monday in two sections, one at 4 and the other at 5 o'clock. There are no uniform requirements except that gymnasium shoes or sneakers must be worn. The Physical Training Department will welcome all men who are at all interested in this sort of work...
...undergraduate and graduate students who desire to form groups for either general physical exercise, or some special form of exercise such as boxing, wrestling, fencing, etc., should indicate their choice by signing either at the Hemenway Gymnasium, Leavitt & Peirce's, or Weld 3. If a sufficient number of men show interest, Director Geer will take charge of the organization of such groups...
...Randolph Gymnasium, which has been entirely remodelled during the summer, is to be completed and ready for use by the end of next week, according to information given out at the office of the Director of Physical Training. The greatest change that has been made in the building is that the main room which was formerly used as a tennis court or as a place for physical training classes has been divided into two floors on each of which are seven squash courts. The total of 14 courts will keep from 40 to 50 men busy at the same time...
...will commandeer every available inch of Soldiers Field suitable for outdoor sport. As much as possible the men will be kept outdoors, for the director believes in the value of open air as a complement of exercise. In the winter time the men will have the use of Hemenway Gymnasium, Randolph Gymnasium, the Baseball Cage, the Dunster swimming pool and its squash courts. Thirteen squash and racquet courts will be available in Randolph Gymnasium after repairs now under way are completed. It is hoped that it will be possible to erect a temporary Freshman gymnasium directly behind Standish Hall...
...Derrick C. Parmenter '13, now one of the football coaches; W. Haines, recently returned form overseas, where he was in general charge of the special training battalions for gassed, wounded, and shell shocked men of all classes, and Carl L. Schrader, for years in charge of the Hemenway Gymnasium exercises...