Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Yale went in for expansion, endowments, and publicity, it was not content to build ordinary buildings that with common efficiency would carry out the functions for which they were intended. Under the Yale hand, a chemistry laboratory became a Hampton Court palace; a gymnasium became a Norman Cathedral, well fortified from all access of light; fraternity houses and senior-society tombs were built as Attic temples, Saracenic strongholds. Tudor mansions, Venetian palaces, and sacred edifices of the classical revival. Every minor building became other-wordly, enchanting in its antique quaintness, its cumbersome and happy extravagance. The donors were tickled...
...make prominent the muscles of his slender body, greased to show high relief under the lights, one never loses the suspicion that his manager, Robert Arm- strong, an athletic young man who looks something like Jack Sharkey, could slap him over anytime for no purse. Absurdities include a gymnasium shot in which a training fighter swings wildly at his spar- ring partner's chin for several minutes in an effort to knock him out; Armstrong playing solitaire on a table set up on the floor of the gymnasium; fighters wearing their bathrobes on the scales while weigh- ing in; Ayres...
Following the meal, the ambassador visited Lowell House and the New Gymnasium...
Ambassador Prittwitz said he was very much impressed with the new houses and gymnasium. He expressed satisfaction at finally having seen a large American business school, for, he explained there is much talk of them in Germany...
...third intra-mural competition between Dunster and Lowell Houses for this year, swimming teams of both Houses will meet in the pool of the New Indoor Gymnasium at 4.15 o'clock today. The Houses have participated in two other contests this year, Dunster winning in football, defeating Lowell by the score of 7 to 6, while Lowell was the victor in basketball by a score...