Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Name is Founder Bishop Bernard James Sheil of Chicago, who nursed it from a fledgling (in 1932) in one hangar, one building and a cow pasture to lusty, soaring adolescence. A pious local farmer donated 620 flat acres; rich Chicago Manufacturer Frank J. Lewis financed 14 roomy buildings (the gymnasium is a memorial to son Joseph, killed in a plane crash). By this year's end, air-minded Bishop Sheil expects to have three more big runways, a 180-acre improved landing field, an approved CAA flying school rating and an Illinois State license to confer Bachelor of Science...
Last week 8,000 stolid Scandinavian-Americans converged in cars and busses on the little hilltop college town of Northfield, Minn. Only the first 4,000 jammed their way into the red brick gymnasium of St. Olaf Lutheran College. The rest sprawled on the surrounding lawns. What drew all these people to St. Olaf's gymnasium was a two-day festival of choral music. Delegations of husky Lutheran choristers from all the surrounding States had come to St. Olaf to sing. Together they made a huge chorus of 1,400 voices. When that chorus boomed forth its repertory...
...Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring, mousy little Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, coarse, Jew-baiting Julius Streicher, Nazi Deputy Leader Rudolf Hess, Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley. Inspector Himmler will be there too, but the weak, fleshy-chinned, owlish Gestapo chief, looking more like an Austrian Gymnasium teacher than a leader of men, will be the least conspicuous of them...
...will be used for a building. Walter Dill Scott was so excited about the gift that he promptly decided to clear a site on the Evanston campus, facing the lake, for his new institute. To make way, the $1,000,000 stone and steel Patten gymnasium, 302 by 132 feet and three stories high, will be cut into three pieces, moved on skids to a site four blocks away...
Enclosed in the 40-by-120-yard transept of Dartmouth College's vast, cruciform gymnasium at Hanover, N. H. lies the fastest foot-racing track in the world. It was laid seven years ago on the college's 30-year-old indoor cinder track so that Dartmouth boys competing in big indoor meets could accustom themselves to board tracks. But in building it, Dartmouth's Buildings Superintendent Willard Gooding made a few constructive errors...