Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Negotiations are now under way between Mayor Quinn of the City of Cambridge and Harvard University for the ceding of the land now occupied by the Old Gymnasium to the City in exchange for the plot of land in front of Austin Hall, bounded on two sides by Holmes Place...
...Gymnasium, formerly known as the Rogers Building, is located southeast of Memorial Hall on a piece of land bounded by Broadway, Cambridge, and Quincy streets. The site was chosen by Fire Chief J. M. Casey as an ideal place for a fire station. Chief Casey stated yesterday that if the negotiations for the exchange of properties are carried through, the station will house a 60 foot hook and ladder, a hose wagon, and a pump engine...
...University basketball season will get, under way officially at 7 o'clock this evening at the Hemenway Gymnasium when Coach E. A. Wachter will meet candidates. Four of last year's regulars have been lost to the team by graduation, leaving the centre position and two guard posts to be filled by last year's substitutes or new men this year...
...Their interest was so keen, and the sport was so well founded that this year it has gained official recognition. There will be two sections meeting at 4 o'clock and 5 o'clock on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the apparatus section off the main floor of Hemenway gymnasium. At first the sections will be divided up merely in respect to numbers, but as soon as any classification can be made, one group will be composed of advanced and one of elementary tumblers...
...German boy enters a gymnasium at eight or nine years of age and prepares there for his entrance into a university. At 18 or 19 this transition is made although in recent years there is a tendency to lower the age ratios and younger men are found starting their university careers...