Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...hour, hot and coatless, on the Common. Nor are their brethren of the oar a whit behind those who prefer taking their exercise on land to going down to the sea in shells. The University and all the class crews go out every day to try what months of Gymnasium work has done for their muscles. The members of the University are not yet decided upon, as it is too early in the season, but the crew will probably consist of Dana (stroke), Goodwin, Morse, Low, Bacon, Devens (bow). The Junior crew is at present Silsbee (stroke), Wheeler, Good-rich...
...gymnasium is deservedly popular. We have due respect for its importance in physical training, all due honor for the conquests in the field or on the water, in which it has had so large a share. But, as far as the majority of students is concerned, we claim that it has, or ought to have, a powerful rival in the simple exercise which is the subject of this article. For the professional gymnast, the athlete who aspires to honor with the bat or the oar, the training of the gymnasium is wellnigh indispensable. But for the scholar, whose thoughts...
AMONG the other reforms held in view by the College Government, we trust that an alteration and improvement of the Gymnasium holds a prominent place. The present building was erected some dozen years ago, when the importance of physical culture was just beginning to meet with its proper recognition, and when, moreover, the great increase in the number of students did not seem so near at hand as it afterwards proved to be. To-day the Gymnasium entirely fails to accomplish the object for which it was built. Let any one who doubts this visit the place between the hours...
...building devoted to such uses it is evident that good ventilation is of primary importance. Owing to some fault in the structure of our Gymnasium, it is impossible to obtain this except by opening large windows, which expedient renders the centre of the building too cold, while it fails to ventilate the dressing-rooms at all. Another convenience, and one which is considered indispensable to all modern gymnasiums, would be supplied by the introduction of bath-rooms...
...College of late years has offered to the students every encouragement in the way of ball and boating, and neither has it neglected the Gymnasium, the natural complement of those more enjoyable but more restricted modes of physical training. Plans for improvement have already been considered, and were it not for the crippled condition of the College finances next summer would see the work begun. It is proposed to raise the roof of the dressing-rooms to double its present height, and to place the office, dressing-rooms, etc., on the second floor. This change would almost double the space...