Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every student is to participate in some form of bodily development, and if every member of every Harvard team is to be a representative Harvard man. To make this possible, the effort should be made to get immediate action from the authorities upon such outstanding needs as a new gymnasium, a swimming pool, more squash courts, and a baseball cage. It goes without saying that any tendency to commercialize athletics means overemphasis and must be discouraged...
Last April Mr. Vanderbilt gave $125,000 for a gymnasium for the dormitory. The inclusion of the gymnasium in the dormitory, which marks a precedent in medical education, is part of the general movement for the prevention rather than the cure of disease. It is the wish of Mr. Vanderbilt that the gymnasium be used in connection with courses in the Medical School...
...estimated, according to preliminary plans, that the land and the building, which will house 250 students and the gymnasium, will cost a little more than $1,300,000. Nearly 1500 doctors have subscribed to the fund a total of more than $110,000. About 600 other donors have given over $200,000 and Mr. Vanderbilt's two gifts aggregate $700,000. The University has agreed to contribute the sum of approximately $300,000 as an investment...
...campaign for the dormitory fund started in September, 1923. The support of the doctors was most inspiring, not only in their individual gifts but also in the large number of gifts they secured from others. Mr. Vanderbilt's gift of the gymnasium and his final gift to complete the fund, are, however, by far the largest part of the fund and constitute the most generous recognition of the wisdom of the project and a most valuable aid to the Medical School...
Registration began for first year men on Thursday, and for upperclassmen will continue in the Hemenway Gymnasium from 9 o'clock in the morning until 5 o'clock this afternoon. Tomorrow study cards must be handed in at Emerson Hall by all upperclassmen...