Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...beginning of the present campaign for the gymnasium fund, tomorrow was fixed by the committee as the day on which all pledges of the three upper classes should be paid. Owing to good organization and diligent work, the committees are able to submit a good report today, but the amount set as a goal has not been reached by any means. The Senior class has failed utterly to respond to the urgent requests of the committees, the amount collected from them being only $13. Besides $240 in new pledges from the Freshmen, $1180.75 has been collected as follows...
...consideration. In the second place, a University should offer opportunities for the development of a well-rounded man, a man both physically and mentally strong. When, then, the hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars shown by the report plus the twelve thousand or so for the upkeep of Hemenway Gymnasium are placed beside the two and a half million odd expended yearly in the operation of the University, far from disproportionately large for athletics. They seem unusually reasonable. At least the body is in no danger of receiving a preponderance of attention over the mind...
...Gymnasium Team...
...active campaign for payment of Gymnasium pledges will close this week on Friday, and every man who signed a pledge last year, supposedly in good faith, will be expected to have it paid by that date. By that time there will be no further excuse for those men who were unable to pay last week, until the first of the month, and it can only be supposed that those men who have not paid, or arranged for payment by then, intend to withdraw their support, and deny their pledges. GYMNASIUM COMMITTEE...
...University wrestling team scored a decisive victory over Brown at the Hemenway Gymnasium on Saturday evening, winning five out of six bouts. The only Brown man to win his match was A. E. Beachem, who threw A. S. Thayer '15, in the 125-pound class, in 4 minutes and 55 seconds. Most of the bouts were very evenly contested, only two of the six being won by falls...