Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gymnasium was strangely quiet during the fights because they were being held under intercollegiate rules which prohibit cheering or jeering while the contestants are boxing
...bouts begin at 3:30 p.m. today in the gymnasium on the top floor of the IAB. The fights will take place under intercollegiate rules which prohibit cheering or jeering while the fight is on. Each match will consist of three rounds of two minutes each...
...then there's Walt Hewlett. A sore foot and a bad cold kept Walt out of almost half the Crimson's winter competition, but apparently he's ready to go today. Last year, as the solid favorite, he ran with a slight cold and plodded around the Cornell gymnasium like a man on a treadmill. Almost lapped by a runner he had beaten easily the week before, he looked miserable...
...painting was Emanuel Leutze's 1854 work, Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth, which since 1892 has lain rolled up in a redwood chest in the basement of Berkeley's Hearst Gymnasium for Women. Larger than its companion piece, the unforgettable 22-ft. by 12-ft. Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851), the oil portrays a bigger than life-size scene of a crucial moment. On a scorching June day in 1778, Major General Charles Lee had ordered the Continental army to retreat before the redcoats. Then, in the nick of time, Washington, accompanied by a cockaded Alexander Hamilton...
...little Roman Catholic school in New England was not even a minor-league basketball power. With only 2,100 students, Providence College played in a high school gymnasium against equally obscure teams, rarely rated a line outside the local papers. Then a touring Notre Dame squad made the mistake of paying a courtesy call, and was upset 85 to 83 on a 44-ft. shot at the buzzer. That was nine years ago, and since then nothing has been quite the same in Providence...