Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Council last spring to the effect that the numerous collections for money during the college year would be eliminated and replaced by a single intensive drive for a Student Council Budget at the beginning of each college year will become an actuality today. In the registration envelopes at Hemenway Gymnasium will be found. Budget Pledge cards which every student will be expected to fill out and hand in at the designated tables on leaving the registration buildings...
Last week Professor John Erskine startled Columbia again. It was a hot night on Morningside Heights. The Columbia Gymnasium was packed by people who had come not only to hear Professor Walter Henry Hall lead his symphony orchestra through Beethoven's overture to "Egmont" and Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" overture, but likewise to investigate an extraordinary item printed in the pro- gram: Piano concerto in D major Mozart...
...rumored that witless criticism has been drifting about in regard to the proposed new chapel to be erected on the site of Appleton. Hypocrites, heathens, and one-cylinder Shaws are reported to be auctioning God for a gymnasium. Puny little babbling voices from this desert of sin are deploring the thought of tranquil worship in cool marble halls...
...having no adequate symposium or swimming pool in which to exercise themselves they follow the other paths open to them. Now which will do these men the most good a chapel in which they can sit in marbled coolness thinking of the good times they are missing or a gymnasium in which they can find good wholesome exercise strengthening their bodies and fitting themselves for the battle of life? And the boys in France, sleeping their last--would they be more pleased to have an aspiring finger pointing toward heaven in memory of their noble exploits, or to know that...
...aesthetic and artistic side of the question it is to be hoped that even New England architects can adorn a gymnasium with spacious porticos and massive columns such that the holy ones might risk a glance. Alexis de Tarnowsky...