Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rockefeller Center-the boast is not literally true. But to many of the university's neighbors on Morningside Heights, Columbia is about as popular as a slum landlord. Last week 150 demonstrators, including many sympathetic students, clashed with police while trying to block construction of a new university gymnasium on park land that some residents of nearby Harlem wish to protect. Thirteen protesters were arrested. The confrontation was the latest in a long series of emotional disputes involving Columbia and Morningside Heights, a neighborhood whose residents are a mixture of Negroes, Puerto Ricans and white intellectuals attracted...
Colin Adair became the first foreigner to win the U.S. singles squash championship in 15 years when he defeated fellow Canadian Peter Martin yesterday in Harvard's Hemenway Gymnasium...
...other side of the Longfellow School gymnasium, they were sorting the canary-yellow School Committee ballots and making an unofficial count...
Most of the other lvy League schools have recently completed or are beginning new expansion programs for their athletic facilities. Princeton recently broke ground for a new gymnasium, after completing a new outdoor complex. Dartmouth has finished its new Levarone field house. Cornell and Penn have also begun new athletic expansion programs in recent years...
...knowledge industry," as education is now called, is touted as a $200 billion industry-one of the nation's biggest. Presumably every expenditure, down to janitors' salaries and the cost of the new gymnasium (also computed as part of the construction industry), is figured in. But then there is the $126.7 billion of Government spending, the $189 billion service industry, the $21 billion annual economic loss through crime, and the $25 billion that Vance Packard says is spent on disposable packages each year. The grand total has soon soared past the gross national product...