Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every Friday during the football season, the entire high school would meet for a mass rally in the gymnasium. The team would sit conspicuously on folding chairs placed out in the middle of the floor, and the cheerleaders would begin their chant...
Gradually, as this chant of identity was repeated louder and louder, it would spread from the nine cheerleaders to the entire student body, almost shaking the impersonal wood and brick of the functional, modern gymnasium. Here was my first experience of being a representative person...
...going to play at Boston University on November 21st, he started making plans. He arranged to get his tickets as soon as the box office opened ( the concert was sold out in a day ) and when the 21st finally came, Murph was at the door of B.U.'s Sargent Gymnasium, with food and friends, at one in the afternoon, ready for the 8 p.m. concert. Seating was first-come first-served, and Murph planned to be first. Meawhile, Frank was a couple of miles up Storrow Drive at Soldier's Field, selling his and Murph's Yale-game tickets...
...style of its own, expressing the deeper characteristics and needs of the people. Even American colleges-the arbiters and nurturers of taste and respectable culture-reflect this inarticulate need to conjure a non-existent architectural past at the expense of a real and deteroriating present. The modern college gymnasium cannot escape the desire to fit everything into the Georgian or Gothic shells of antiquity...
Harvard's varsity wrestling team continued to smash area opposition, taking nine of ten championship matches last night in the final round of the first annual Greater Boston Collegiate Wrestling Tournament at Tufts' Cousens Gymnasium...