Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dancing in the Gymnasium and Memorial Hall...
Paying Guests. The most far-reaching of these was the cumulative decision on membership. Heretofore a Jewess or a Unitarian, "belonging" to the Y. W. C. A., lodging at its hostels, using its gymnasium and recreational facilities, could consider herself only a paying guest. She had no voting rights in the national organization which her fees helped support. Henceforth she will have such rights by majority vote,* of the 2,500 convention delegates...
...Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, a retired gentleman prize fighter, one-time sparring partner of Anthony Drexel Biddle, who made Stanley Ketchel look like a goat, who backed up Tommy Burns, and was knocked out in 1909 by Jack Johnson, conducts an exclusive gymnasium and reducing establishment in Manhattan. He has many rich patrons. Last week one of them, delighted with her reduction, gave a party for him. To that party was bidden the brother of Philadelphia Jack O'Brien?Young Jack O'Brien (born 1895)?who won decisions over Ad Wolgast, K. O. Brown and Young Erne...
Harvard has long boasted the oldest and worst gymnasium in the country. It rarely boasts about having the filthiest one. That's a pity, since it could so boast without the slightest danger of ever being challenged...
...fitting for an abbatoir. Nor are the results far to seek. If the man next to you in class wears a mask of diseased flesh, he is a wrestler who lost a bout to one or several of the loathsome skin infections that roam at large in our gymnasium. And if, presently you wear a similar mask, though you never went within a block of Hemenway, it just goes to prove that rumour is not the only thing that spreads. Some day the bugs will take that gymnasium up by the roots and walk off with it. Let us hope...