Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest of all the old still active fighters went last week to Lou Stillman's gymnasium in Manhattan to have a work out. Lou Stillman's gym is an attic, stuffed with smoke and people ; the people, when this fighter entered, looked with awe on his fat stomach and his burly arms...
...pounds. A shelf projecting some six or eight inches from the circumference encircled the dummy about three feet from the bottom and was for the purpose of compelling the men to get their heads down under it when tackling. This device was hung vertically by a rope in the gymnasium and while it undoubtedly taught the men to tackle low and was the embroyo of a contrivance since developed into universal usage, it was so heavy and so hard that a good many men came away from the dummy drills injured, some suffering even broken collar bones...
...plan for erecting a fire station on the site of the Old Gymnasium originated when the Brattle Square fire station was condemned by building inspectors, and the Harvard Square business men objected to the permanent removal of the three pieces of apparatus to a distant station...
...Gymnasium was built in 1860 from a gift of $8,000 by H. B. Rogers of the Class of 1822. When constructed, the gymnasium supplied the needs of the entire college; it soon proved to be inadequate, however, which is shown by the fact that the President of the College proposed building a larger structure, and converting the old one into a "swimming bath...
...after the Hemenway Gymnasium had been built, the Old Gymnasium was fitted out with laboratory equipment of the Engineering School. It has also been used as the Germanic Museum, storehouse, carpentry shop and paint shop. The building is now being used as a shipping depot of the University Press...