Word: gymnasiums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...records of The Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports there appears, during the year 1887, the statement that steps should be taken to increase the size of the Hemenway Gymnasium. An addition was made to this building in 1895 and ever since undergraduates have been asking for more indoor athletic facilities...
...undergraduates started a campaign for a new gymnasium but their attempts were discouraged because the authorities of the University felt that a chemical laboratory and a fine arts building were needed more than a new gymnasium. The chemical laboratory and the fine arts building have been finished, and we hope very much that before another year the new indoor athletic building will be in use also. I hope the graduates who are returning for their reunions will find time to visit the site of this building. It is made possible through the generous gifts of three anonymous donors, but unfortunately...
...ideal behind physical exercise at Harvard today is supervised recreational competition. Gone are the days when boys assemble in a gymnasium to follow in sheep-like fashion the lead of a physical director. This form of exercise has been replaced by competitive games, and it is interesting to know that in this building these, is a very small space devoted to the old type gymnasium facilities. I doubt if there will be more than a dozen pairs of dumb bells or Indian clubs in the whole building, but in their place we shall have swimming, wrestling, boxing, fencing, basketball, indoor...
...generous gifts from alumni who have made possible Soldiers Field, the Baseball Cage, Newell Boat House, Hemenway Gymnasium, the facilities at Red Top, and more recently the new indoor athletic building, the Harvard Athletic Association is most grateful...
...Samborski's success in the recent development of intra-mural athletics under what have often been trying conditions is a tribute both to his ability and to the wisdom of Harvard's policy of athletics for all. Next year the new gymnasium will give intramural athletics much greater usefulness, and will help to place Mr. Bingham's program on a firm and sound basis...