Word: gymnasiums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When a gymnasium instructor at the International Y. M. C. A. College, Springfield, Mass., set his class to tossing a soccer ball through two bottomless peach baskets one winter afternoon in 1891, he had no idea he was inventing what was to become the most popular U. S. winter sport, basketball. Instructor James A. Naismith was just trying to keep his restless charges from getting bored. The class took to his pastime with such enthusiasm that the Y. M. C. A. began teaching basketball in other cities. By 1893 the game had been brought to Detroit...
...evening three weeks ago, guests arrived at a "charter day dinner" held in the gymnasium of Washington's Howard University, largest Negro university in the U. S. As they arrived they were handed copies of the Alumni Journal, published by the university's General Alumni Association. Three hundred copies were distributed before police routed the distributors. On the Journal's cover was a large portrait of bald, pince-nezzed, light-skinned Dr. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, first Negro president of the 71-year-old institution, now serving his twelfth year, and beneath it in large letters: "The Case...
Down at New Haven Head Coach Ed Leader sent his Blue oarsmen to the harbor from the tanks in the Payne Whitney gymnasium about two weeks before the Crimson moved out to the Charles. He has an exceptionally large, promising group, including such veterans as Charley Adsit, Frank Geer, Howard Johnson, and Paul Wick. For several weeks he had available for tank rowing 22 eights...
...fans at the Yale-Harvard swimming meet Saturday night were pleasantly surprised, as they left Payne Whitney Gymnasium, to find a CRIMSON extra, carrying the complete story of the meet, being distributed free at the door...
...LINE A DAY" by the Payne Whitney Gymnasium in New Haven for the weekend of March 11 and 12, 1938. (Apologies to the Yale "News...