Word: gymnasium
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...Harvard men’s tennis team bounced back into action this weekend at the 2007 Wilson/ITA Northeast Regional Men’s Tennis Championships, advancing two players into the quarterfinals, which will be played today. The tournament, which was held indoors at Princeton’s Jadwin Gymnasium, started on Friday and will end with the championship matches tomorrow. Six members of the Crimson traveled to Princeton to compete in the 96-man singles main draw and two doubles pairs competed in the 42-pair doubles tournament. The top 32 seeds in singles received first-round byes...
...systems were bad, the infrastructure was failing,” Gibson said, citing sewer leakage, fire safety concerns, accessibility issues, and electrical failures. For instance, the electrical circuit fuses blew if all of the treadmills were being used simultaneously, Gibson said. The look of the gymnasium itself, though, should be familiar. “One of the things that’s great about this facility is that it’s a throw-back gymnasium, similar to the gymnasium at Hemenway,” Gibson said. “What we’ve tried to do is make...
...Officers were dispatched to take a report of a suspicious individual at the Hemenway Gymnasium. They found the individual, who initially provided an identity card and was run for wants and warrants with negative result. In the process of placing him under arrest, however, he provided identification that contained his real name. Kevin J. O’Brien, age 33, of Attleboro, Mass., was then run for wants and warrants a second time with positive result. He was charged with trespassing, furnishing a false name, and was issued a trespass warning for all University property...
...there is something to be said for being left to one's own devices and learning to cope in difficult surroundings. Einstein is a good example: it's a myth that Einstein failed math, but he hated his Munich school, the Luitpold Gymnasium. Like many other gifted kids, he chafed at authority. "The teachers at the elementary school seemed to me like drill sergeants, and the teachers at the gymnasium are like lieutenants," he later said. Einstein was encouraged to leave the school, and he did so at 15. He didn't need a coddling academy to do O.K. later...
Faust introduced Grosz as interim dean at a gathering of Radcliffe staff and fellows in the Radcliffe Gymnasium Friday morning...