Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morale where it is found among reservists. "Our daily routine," fumed Sergeant Robert A. Levy, a District of Columbia Air Guardsman at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, "consists of reading magazines and newspapers, listening to the radio, playing cards, organizing and participating in chess tournaments, visiting the base gymnasium, pitching horseshoes and taking coffee breaks." Levy, who was president of a Maryland computer consulting firm until he was called up, was so angry that he wrote an open letter to the President and Congress. "Never have I seen human resources so tragically misallocated," he declared. "Never have I experienced...
...calling out each girl's name, the rain began to fall. Mrs. Bunting, who had been shaking each girl's hand and giving her her diploma, asked the class of '68 to decide "democratically" whether to continue the service outdoors in the Radcliffe Yard, or move into the gymnasium. The black-capped girls voted overwhelmingly to continue outdoors in the rain...
...making processes. Yet would Harvard's Corporation be any more flexible in the face of reasonable opposition from the community, and from students and faculty, to a policy-decision? Harvard's decentralized government and its community-minded Office for Civic and Governmental Affairs would probably never permit an apartheid-gymnasium issue to reach the Corporation in the first place. But in the face of general increase in student agitation, does Harvard need to adjust its constitution? Or does the current decision-making system provide adequate means for any community member to express his thoughts...
Columbia's students had reached the point where they recognized that polite and relevant protests got nowhere with the authorities; faculty and students alike had bristled over the Morningside gymnasium issue for years. When they were not listened to on a reasonable issue, the students resorted to force...
Last year, the Kenyon student continued, Harrison's team was 25-3 and often packed as many as 2000 fans into the 1800-seat gymnasium. Harrison advocates a fast-break offense: his most recent team scored more than 100 points 11 times, averaging 98.6 points per game. Kenyon ranked 19th among the nation's small colleges last year...