Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This physical education school was founded in 1881 by Dudley Allen Sargent, then director of the Hemenway Gymnasium at Harvard. In 1904 the present building was erected, and in 1929 it offered itself to B.U., which accepted...
None of this made much impression on young Carl-Gustaf Rossby, who in 1918 was a restless, adventurous 19-year-old student at the University of Stockholm. Son of a construction engineer, he went through gymnasium (secondary school) with no special interest in science. Looking around for an exciting profession, he thought at one time of astronomy. This attraction, he now recalls, came from several romantic novels about bearded astronomers sitting on mountaintops and looking at the stars, while young girls in lacy nightgowns ran uphill toward them, tearing their nightgowns on the thickets. Calm reflection convinced him that real...
...youngest champion (as Moore was undoubtedly the oldest). Only a few years before, Patterson had been an underprivileged Brooklyn kid, a tough and aimless truant who ran with the back-street gangs and snarled himself into a school for wayward boys. He came out of a lower East Side gymnasium to win the 1952 Olympic middleweight championship at 17, went on through a passel of rugged amateur scraps and only one defeat in 31 professional fights...
...freshman squash "B" team won its opening match of the year against Phillips Academy Saturday afternoon in Hemenway Gymnasium, 3 to 2. Although the Yardlings dropped the first two matches, depth told the story as the bottom three freshman players picked up victories...
...freshman squash team opens its season this afternoon against Phillips Academy at Hemenway Gymnasium. With one of the brightest prospects in recent years for a good season, the Yardlings should defeat a perennially weak Andover team with little difficulty...