Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Going ahead logically to point out a remedy for each fault enumerated, Burrus makes the following suggestions as steps to cure the specific evils: (1) Replace Freshman and Sophomore gymnasium with two years of compulsory sports. (2) Limit intercollegiate competition to Juniors and Seniors or to Sophomores and Juniors. (3) Limit each sport to its season. (4) Limit daily practice for each sport. (5) Limit each student to participation in one intercollegiate sport, or prohibition of participation in successive sports. (6) Give students and faculty greater control of athletics...
...regard to the actual suggestions, the first alone seems to have no particular virtue. Organized sports are preferable to compulsory gymnasium exercise, but the cure is not in substituting one compulsion for another. The alternative of the fifth proposal, prohibition of participation in successive sports, seems more practical than that of limiting a man to one sport. It eliminates the evil of continuous training, without depriving the versatile athlete unnecessarily of a real enjoyment which he may find in intercollegiate athletic competition. The remaining points merit serious consideration. Harvard might well lead the East in acting along the lines suggested...
Four hundred undergraduates reported for moving picture try-outs yesterday morning, when First National Studios conducted tests for prospective Douglas Fairbanks and Milton Sills in the Freshmen Gymnasium at 11 o'clock. After being lined up in parade fashion, they were marched by several First National reviewers, some ten of the most handsome and most striking were chosen, and the rest were left to watch the victims perform. Those, who were chosen, after watching the process of make-up being performed on two Brown undergraduates, who had been transported to Cambridge for that purpose, were then asked to remove their...
...opportunity for Harvard undergraduates to prove themselves able and capable motion picture actors comes today between 11 and 12 o'clock when representatives of First National Pictures studios, conducting a nation-wide search for college men with screen personalities, will visit the Freshman Gymnasium. At this time preliminary interviews and photographic tests will be conducted...
...Freshman Gymnasium will be the seen of operations. According to present plans, the hour for the preliminary interviews is set at 12 o'clock. The photographing of the ten most distinctive men is to follow immediately afterwards...