Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beautifully landscaped 55-acre campus, on the slopes of Mt. Ida, near Troy, centers on a quadrangle of neo-Gothic dorms and classrooms mostly donated by Alumna Mrs. Russell Sage (wife of a millionaire investor), a library with 19,000 volumes, hockey fields, riding stables, a gymnasium with swimming pool and bowling alleys. Tuition and board costs $3,000, and optional charges (piano lessons, for example) can raise the bill by another $ 1,000. Yet Emma Willard is not a rich school; the endowment per pupil is $2,500, compared to $11,400 for Miss Porter's in Connecticut...
Biggest and boomingest of them was held in the Washington and Lee University gymnasium in Lexington, Va., last week. The 1,256 just-pretend Republican delegates were in dead earnest. Months ago they had polled real-life G.O.P. state leaders, learned how they might vote at the real Republican convention in July. Now the kids were committed to vote as nearly like the actual delegation as possible-so much so that many mock delegations got a stream of telephoned instructions from real politicians throughout the convention. Beside that, tough-minded and thoroughly grown-up G.O.P. professionals backing Rockefeller, Goldwater...
...voting, the Washington and Lee delegates nominated Barry Goldwater on the second ballot, named Pennsylvania's Governor Scranton his running mate. Through it all, Barry stayed near a phone in Washington, was plugged into the gymnasium public-address system minutes after he won and said solemnly, "I accept with great humility. I hope and pray it is a good omen for July and November...
...Harvard swimmers will compete in the three-day NCAA swimming championships which begin today in Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium...
...Niederhoffer will defend his University squash title against Bob Hetherington of the Divinity School Thursday at 5 p.m. in Hemenway Gymnasium...