Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannery, make uniforms to wear at the farm, clothes to wear when they go home. Last week, with the help of 447 prisoners transferred from the flooded reformatory at Frankfort, Lexington's convict-patients were enlarging their athletic field for baseball and horseshoe pitching. They have a gymnasium, a bowling alley, a band. Dr. Kolb expects to develop a concert series soon. In the Lexington farm's library, magazines and newspapers are uncensored. Patients eat from chinaware, .instead of prison tinware, and have comparatively small, cozy dining rooms instead of big, dreary mess halls. They attend church...
...Harvard we do not find the distinctive features of university life; the lands work from morning to midnight, snatching an hour now and an hour then to go to the gymnasium or to play at baseball, a kind of rounders. They are extremely orderly and well-behaved. Nothing surprises an English University man so as to see young ladies tripping about in the neighborhood of the college, and to learn that several girls' schools have been established at Cambridge on account of the university and the superior training which may be there obtained...
Ulen plans to enter the following men for the meet in Memorial Gymnasium Pool tonight...
...minor sports which are liable to demotion. The desultory interest shown in House athletics shows that the step from intercollegiate to intramural status is a big one, and that many students find the spur of scheduled outside matches necessary to make them appear at all in the gymnasium or on the field. To abolish this competition would be to start a rapid decline in some of the most worthwhile of Harvard athletic pursuits...
Three hundred men, mostly Freshmen, Law Students, and Professors, are now regularly using the facilities of the Hemenway Gymnasium. The building was closed all last year but was reopened this fall with Howard Cox as its newly appointed director. Cox, a graduate of Carthage College, and a major letter-winner there in football and basketball, was backfield coach for the Freshman football team and scout for the Varsity last year...