Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take exception to some of the remarks made in Tuesday's issue by that zealous crusader who deplores that fact that certain undergraduates, "hypocrites, heathens and one-cylinder Shaws," have become so spiritually warped that they are raising "their puny, babbling voices demanding that God be sold for a gymnasium...
...such a point and is so well known that something must be done about it. What could be more fitting than a new chapel to stop the mouths of the hypocrites, beathens, and one-cylinder Shaws, who raise their puny, babbling voices demanding that God be sold for a gymnasium?" It will put Harvard on the map in religion as Haughton did in football...
...pots to the beauty of tranquil worship in cool marble halls. And think of the poor boys sleeping their last sleep in France--what could be more suitable than this aspiring, finger pointing toward Heaven in perpetual memory of their noble exploits? And what is wrong with the present gymnasium besides the fact that it is old and-considerably infested with the smallest of God's creatures. After all, should God be sacrificed because of a few bugs...
Thus the morning chapel and Sunday church facilities which are well supplied by the spacious roominess and many vacant pews of Appleton chapel shall be better supplied with greater spaciousness and more vacant news in the form of a splendid new church, while "that which hath not", namely Hemenway Gymnasium, shall be deprived of what it has, when an increasing influx of graduate students from the new business school and other quarters consume what little ozone is left in those musty vaults. Thousands of Harvard men are asked to contribute their means to the Memorial Church, built in Georgian Design...
Dancing will be held in the evening from 8 o'clock until 11 in the Gymnasium and Memorial Hall. At 9 o'clock the Glee Club will present its annual Class Day program on the steps of Widener Library...