Word: gymnasium
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...atmosphere pervading the plush offices in the Payne Whitney gymnasium, however, was one of hurried excitement. Secretaries and student aides were working overtime, preparing news releases and official notices. Sports writers from the local papers talked among themselves at they waited for a telephone interview with Crimson football coach John Yovicson...
...discovery came as a surprise David G. Mitten, teaching fellow in Fine Arts, had driven a trench from the main avenue of Sardis to find the colonnade of a Roman gymnasium. Instead, he found a building nearly 60 feet wide and more than 120 feet long, paved with mosaics, revetted with marble, and featuring a triple gate between an eastern and a western hall...
Curiously, the synagogue seems to have been included in the master plan for the large Roman gymnasium complex, and lies just off the main marble-paved avenue of Roman Sardis. The Jewish historian Josephus has preserved the decrees of Roman emperors Julius Caesar and Augustus which guarantee the right of the Jewish community of Sardis to assemble according to the custom of their fathers...
...site selected for the two colleges was a large, angular plot, bounded on one side by the huge Gothic tower of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium and on the other by the unbelievable part-medieval, part-Georgian Graduate School. The design which Saarinen eventually produced offended neither on the two and managed, in fact, to blend excellently with the Gothic...
...Delamarian is pastor of the Mount Prospect Bible Church, which owns a $150,000 brick-and-stone building for services, a gymnasium, and five acres of land. Delamarian's Sunday services draw 200 or more. But what the people hear in his new church is the same strident Bible faith that he taught in the Chicago storefront. "I haven't changed the service," he says. "It's the same out here as in the city...