Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidates for the 1929 basketball team will hold their first meeting at 4.15 o'clock this afternoon in the Freshman Gymnasium...
Last week he died. His will was opened. He had left a small bequest to each of his two sisters in Nebraska. The bulk of his estate (about $100,000) he left to the county for the erection of a school gymnasium and playground. The town was shocked. The Negro's body was carried to the Court House and a public funeral was held. Three clergymen-Presbyterian, Methodist, Roman Catholic -spoke over his body...
...Music attracted him too, and he soon became an expert on the flute. At the gymnasium in Pskoff, he won a reputation as a humorist, and he read much, falling under the influence of Mayne and Reid and writing his first novel at the age of 13. About this time, too, he joined a circus and performed as an equilibrist near Pskoff...
...seventh class of the gymnasium he conceived a plan to flee to America, but when he found how many others were going there, he changes his schemed and for the sake of originality substituted Africa for the western hemisphere. But Nikolai surrendered his dreams of adventure to go to the school of Law in Petrograd, where he soon found an outlet for his instinct for the theatre in the Legal Dramatic Circle. There he appeared in "The Robbers" and 'Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man." There too he produced his first serious musical composition, the opera "The Power of Magic...
Students interested in the game, and wishing to show cause why such action should not be taken, will be heard at a special meeting of the Committee to be held at the Hemenway Gymnasium, on Monday, December 1, at 7.30 o'clock...