Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piece of Sargent's Autobiography which cited some of the objections. Among them were "the brief costumes required for sufficient comfort," and "the coeducational freedom necessary for gymnastics and the practice of athletics." These factors eventually forced Sargent to start a separate women's college next to Hemenway Gymnasium...
Activities of the local scientists have required operation of a small fleet of laboratory vessels and three field stations at which sound measurements could be made. As the war drew to a close, the experiments were transferred from the gymnasium basketball floor and squash courts to the Navy Underwater Sound Laboratory at New London, Connecticut...
Coldly considered, The Bronx's Hunter College, where UNO's delegates convened this week, was probably as good a place as any to bring a world problem. The echoing college gymnasium had been equipped with a false ceiling, a false floor, and paneled walls. Rose drapes and beige furniture had transformed the gym into a warmly decorated chamber with seats for 692 and perfect acoustics. Its council table held hidden microphones, its glassed-in balcony a gleaming mass of radio, motion picture and television equipment. It even had a specially built steel ballot box, equipped, against any eventuality...
Selected guests of the Navy last week got a preview of this technique of battle-watching. They sat in a darkened gymnasium in Washington while three television-equipped airplanes took off from nearby fields. On television screens the spectators saw what the planes saw: they flew by proxy to Baltimore, watching a brush fire on the way. They made a sight-seeing tour of Washington, spying on the traffic in the streets. At one point, eleven Navy fighters made a mock attack. If a battle had been in progress, the spectators could have eyewitnessed it from their comfortable chairs...
Coach Hal Ulen's mermen were in top form when they met the Eli swimmers last Saturday at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium in New Haven, but the vaunted Eli power crushed them into a 48 to 27 defeat. The predominantly Freshmen team, captained by Frank Krayer, fought hard gainst the veteran Yale Varsity, spurred on by the feeling which always accompanies a Crimson-Blue match...