Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hemenway Gymnasium at the Law School is open daily Mon. Thus. 11-1 for anyone who wants to play volleyball...
Robert B. WATS 37, director of Athletics, said Tuesday that the Athletics Department will make a "concerned effort" to open the gym room and adjoining basketball court in Hemenway Gymnasium more often for sorely needed club workouts...
...both mesmerize and anesthetize. Alone, perhaps, among the games of civilized man, its depths have never been fully plumbed, its possibilities calculated and codified. To Benjamin Franklin it taught "foresight, circumspection, caution and the habit of not being discouraged by our present affairs." For Lenin it was "the gymnasium of the mind," for Einstein a demon "that holds its master in its own bonds, fetters and in some ways shapes his spirit." Said H.G. Wells: "You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you want to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable. But teach...
...There were times, he writes, when he "wanted to vomit" at the futile debate in the House about the war. Angry, he once took the floor to expose the fact that many of his colleagues were absent from the discussion because they were playing paddle ball in the House gymnasium...
...time Katims got to Bethel, the orchestra had already given full symphonic concerts in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau. Now, in the high school gymnasium, Katims led a 16-member string ensemble before an enthusiastic crowd of adults and children that overflowed from bleachers and folding chairs onto the floor. There was an overflow of the overflow when a chorus of 94 children came out to join Katims in Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus...