Word: gymnasium
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...presidents of the four classes have appointed the following gymnasium sub-committees to carry out an active campaign for the collection of the gymnasium fund...
There seems to have been some misunderstanding about my attitude towards the proposed gymnasium. To the students who came to see me on Monday, I said the same thing that I have always said to every advocate of the plan who has spoken to me,--that the University would be very glad to have a new gymnasium whenever it is given, although I do not see where the large sums needed are to be found. Very truly yours, A. LAWRENCE LOWELL...
Attention should be called to President Lowell's communication in this morning's CRIMSON. His sanction of a graduate committee to collect money for the new gymnasium was stated in the papers in such a way as to seem something new. not changes. Although he has not been and is not optimistic concerning the immediate success of the plan, if the graduates, having received the proof of the undergraduates' eagerness in it, are sufficiently interested to contribute the money, he will be pleased to see such a building at Harvard...
...protested that there were no signs of a graduate committee and no signs of progress. Their feelings were well expressed in the centre page of the going out number of the Lampoon's 1914 Board, which depicted, the present chairman of the undergraduate committee pointing out the newly finished gymnasium to his grandchildren in 1975. The graduates, however, were only awaiting the approval of President Lowell before furthering a scheme in which many of them are deeply interested...
...long as he holds off from redeeming his promise; so much he costs the committee in time and money, so much he breaks an unwritten understanding between graduates and undergraduates, and so much he hinders the consummation of that end most devoutly to be wished--a new gymnasium...