Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might be injured in the boisterous yearly initiation of high school freshmen by the senior class. So Mrs. Betty Stevens, English teacher and sponsor of this year's senior class, decided to try something different. Instead of seeing her charges mill around all evening at a rough-house gymnasium party, she would get the seniors to lead the freshmen on a pre-Halloween trip through a haunted house. Principal William Hobert Sallee, 60, got into the spirit of the thing, thought the kids might get a kick out of finding him hanging in a dark room...
...third anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision against segregation in public schools, Bobby Lynn Cain, 17. marched into the gymnasium of the Clinton (Tenn.) High School to become the first Negro ever to graduate from an integrated school in the state. How did he feel about the months of violence behind him? Said Bobby: "It's been a rough year, and I wouldn't want to go through it again. But there's got to be a breakup in the old traditions of segregation, but you can't get to them overnight...
Attended Budapest Gymnasium...
...refugee attended a gymnasium in Budapest, where he received a good education in classical subjects, and as a result, is "not so technically oriented as most Hungarian students are," Lefeber said. Refused admittance at the University of Budapest because his parents are middle-class, Heimler is reportedly interested in pre-medical studies...
...HAVEN, March 2--In spite of the absence of star guard Johnny Lee, a powerful Yale basketball team proved too much for a slow-starting Harvard team here in Payne-Whitney Gymnasium tonight. Except for a brief three-minute stretch late in the game, the Elis were never behind, winning by a comfortable eight-point margin...