Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduates have pledged themselves to support the project of a new gymnasium and several prominent graduates have expressed their approval of it. The following article has been written by Dean Bradford on the subject especially for the CRIMSON...
...older graduates a new gymnasium may seem an unnecessary luxury. Are there not excellent facilities at present at Cambridge and is there not danger that athletics may be overdone? Do the humanities demand brawn...
There can be no doubt that Harvard University needs the best possible equipment for a well organized department for physical culture in its broadest sense, and a well appointed gymnasium is the necessary laboratory for such a department...
...prospects of a new gymnasium are now beginning to take material and definite shape. The informal graduate committee which has been carrying on the campaign has received several large offers of contributions as soon as definite action has been taken. No attempt has been made to request contributions from the alumni, but all that have come in have been voluntary. H. Fish, Jr., '09, has pledged $5000, to be turned over as soon as President Lowell shall appoint a committee to carry on the work...
...three upper classes have shown by their pledges that they believe a new gymnasium necessary, and the class of 1917 is soon to be given an opportunity to show its opinion. The committee again requests students to fulfill their pledges immediately, and send their contributions to Lee, Higginson & Co. If this is done at once, it will save the committee a vast amount of clerical work which will otherwise be necessary in securing the contributions. This is positively the last request which will be made for voluntary fulfillment of the pledges...