Word: gymnasiums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fradd, director of the Hemenway Gymnasium, who is starting his special posture classes for Freshmen today, states that a man should know how to stand properly before entering college, but that annually about 30 per cent of the entering class have to be taught the fundamentals of good body mechanics. "Part of the physical examination for Freshmen is the taking of a set of silhouette photographs from which each man's faults of posture can be determined...
University basketball work will get under way tonight in the first meeting and practice of the season in the Hemenway Gymnasium at 7 o'clock. The Freshmen will not be called out until November...
...Hemenway Gymnasium basketball court has been enlarged and remodelled during the summer, and provided with better facilities for night practice. The iron work over the court has been removed and a set of 12 large arc lights has been installed along the sides and ends of the court...
With a meeting at 7 o'clock this evening in the Freshman Gymnasium of University and Freshman wrestling candidates, the 1927-28 mat season will get under way. Experience will be no factor in the initial practice, as all new men will be started on the same basis, with a drill on fundamentals...
...Scandals, Rang Tang, and other reviews, would be surprised to know that diminutive Aubrey Lyles and tall Flournoy D. Miller (nephew of Bishop Evans Tyree of the African Methodist Church) were undergraduates at Fisk University when they got their first laugh. They had to box together in a gymnasium class, and the discrepancy in their sizes was so ludicrous that each instinctively "clowned it." After that they worked up skits on purpose and still later, caught stage fever. But Aubrey Lyles still has the serious face of the young medical student he once was, and the speech he made...