Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most unfortunate results of the necessary reduction in the expense of the new gymnasium, is the possible elimination of all the squash courts which, according to the original plans, were to occupy the floor below the swimming pool. That there are insufficient funds at present to complete the gymnasium may, or may not be unavoidable, but that such an important part of the equipment as the squash courts may be eliminated seems inexcusable...
...With the gymnasium already under construction and with the squash courts naturally being placed below the pool, if they are to be left out, it would be very difficult to raise the necessary money and alter the plans in time. This being the case, the logical method of avoiding the complete elimination of squash courts from the new center of Harvard will be to incorporate some in the two new Houses...
...week campaign, the upper students elect a mayor, a police commissioner, a labor commissioner. Violators of community regulations are turned over by the police to the labor commissioner who makes them work. Thus, since Montezuma, like all schools, has chronic and clonic law-violators, a student-built gymnasium was erected. Last week, in Worcester, Mass., Clark University's Dr. Vernon Jones (psychologist) revealed a new method of teaching sound citizenship to future citizens. The plan: to confront elementary school students with a problem requiring a moral judgment, to let the students, unaided, make their judgment. Dr. Jones relates...
...gift of Alumnus Briggs Cunningham. He bought and presented to the school the ring in which Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney defeated onetime world champion William Harrison Dempsey in Philadelphia (TIME, Oct. 4, 1926). It will be installed in the rambling gymnasium after the basketball season. Here many students, more paperweight than featherweight, will box, mimicking in miniature the giant punches of the champions who once battled there. Here too will box lusty footballers who later may lead teams at Wesleyan, Yale, Princeton...
...bouts at Hemenway Gymnasium last night comprised the finals of the University boxing tournament; they ranged all the way from dull exhibitions of clinching to slashing matches ending in referee's decisions, and completely satisfied the crowd of some 500 or 600 persons who turned out to see the event...