Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Previously, Berkeleyans have preferred to hold their concerts in Harmon Gymnasium, in spite of its poor acoustics. But last week's turnout (capacity; 7,500 seats filled), although hampered by inclement weather, encouraged symphony officials to plan future concerts for the Greek Theatre...
Statistics: 27 bedrooms, a cellar stocked by the Master of the Wine Cellars at Buckingham Palace, one ballroom, one gymnasium...
...Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, turned the first spadeful of earth for a three-story clubhouse memorial to her dead son in Chicago. The memorial, provided for in Franks Sr.'s will and abuilding under supervision of the Young Men's Jewish Charities, will be equipped with gymnasium, swimming tank and complete athletic plant...
...inhabitants of Harvard when the mauve decade was in full swing and Harvard had a philosophy department. For even the massed chimneys of Dunster House, both the useful and the purely aesthetic ones, are only a few of the outward signs of change. The towering bulk of the new gymnasium opposing the Georgian structure of Lowell House has meant that the small buildings below Mt. Auburn Street have given way before the forward march of mass education, that the rural aspect of the streets in the vicinity of the Freshman Dormitories has stiffened into the more canyon-like semblance...
Gifts. Because California is still comparatively young, few tycoons of the first water have yet appeared on her alumni roster. But three famed and wealthy California families have made her bounteous gifts. The late Phoebe Apperson Hearst (mother of the Hearstpapers' publisher) gave the Women's Gymnasium and many a scholarship. Across the stage of the famed Greek theatre runs the legend: THE GIFT OF WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. Two sons of Publisher Hearst, who also gave the Mining Building, matriculated at California: George and William Randolph Jr. From Banker Amadeo Pe ter Giannini (Bancamerica-Blair) came the Giannini Foundation...