Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...basketball at the University will be realized today for the members of the Freshman class, in accordance with the plans of the Physical Training Department. The first call for candidates for the 1923 Basketball team has been issued for this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Hemenway Gymnasium...
Practice for interdormitory teams will start next week in Hemenway Gymnasium and will be held three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Later in the year, when the basketball court in the New Freshman Athletic Building is completed, the teams will hold their practice there...
...Randolph Gymnasium will be open tomorrow, Armistice Day, for those men desiring to avail themselves of the handball or squash courts there. The hours when men may play are from 10 to 12.30 in the morning and from 1.30 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon...
...most important objects of compulsory physical training is to interest Freshmen in some form of outdoor sport. Exercise in a gymnasium is good, but is does not fill the place of a competitive game played in the open air. Mere development of the muscles during one year is not what is wanted; a real interest must be aroused so that men will regard their exercise not as an unpleasant task required of them, but as a real pleasure which they will continue throughout their college course...
...only flaw in the system, as we see it, is that nearly one-third of the men are taking indoor exercise. If all Freshmen were required to partake in outdoor sports during the autumn and spring months, and during the winter months only were permitted the alternative of gymnasium work, then the dangers of their confining themselves entirely to the gymnasium would be obviated...