Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Copy Sent from Gymnasium...
...copy," writes one of the Herald editors in a history of the CRIMSON, "was written in the gymnasium as the games progressed, and sent to the office by half a dozen messenger boys. It was put in type as fast as received. The last event was the tug-of-war, lasting several minutes. Before this was finished, a full report of all preceding events...
Philosophy 1: "This course in elementary logic probably does as much good for the brain as swinging Indian clubs in Hemenway Gymnasium does for the body. And both forms of exercise are equally exciting. The course consists of parroting a number of logical rules-of-thumb by which the valid may be distinguished from the fallacious with as little thought as possible. At the beginning of the year, Dr. Sheffer supplied his students with a multigraphed outline of these rules, by memorizing which the more receptive of his students received passing grades in the final examination, which was highly logical...
...those able to try for the freshman tug-of-war team please be at the gymnasium at 3 p.m. today as the number of candidates is at present very small...
...remember the living conditions in our time? Unless you were a malefactor of great wealth, living in Claverly or Beck, or took your turn in standing under a faucet in teh gymnasium, there was no chance to bathe. Our classmate, Flandrau, says somewhere in his 'Diary of a Freshman' that a daily bath should be an innocent pleasure, not a morbid family pride. It was not either of these for most of us--it was an unattainable luxury...