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...interesting spectacle. The conference room was the gymnasium of Catholic University, its pictures of former basketball greats temporarily taken down in favor of large red on white signs demanding immediate withdrawal from Southeast Asia. In the back of the room, on the right, you could get a slice of baloney or American cheese between two pieces of bread for thirty-five cents, or get a coke for a quarter. People were starting to get pissed. "Shit, in Ann Arbor, they had all this stuff free, they didn't try to rip you off. That was a real people's conference...

Author: By Michael S. Feldberg, | Title: Bringing an End to the Rhetoric | 3/12/1971 | See Source »

...portion of the Harvard track team will be competing today in the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association of America meet at Princeton's Jadwin Gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trackmen Compete in IC4A's Tonight | 3/6/1971 | See Source »

Every Friday during the football season, the entire high school would meet for a mass rally in the gymnasium. The team would sit conspicuously on folding chairs placed out in the middle of the floor, and the cheerleaders would begin their chant...

Author: By Peter C. Rollins, | Title: Learning to Live With A Degree From Harvard | 2/3/1971 | See Source »

Gradually, as this chant of identity was repeated louder and louder, it would spread from the nine cheerleaders to the entire student body, almost shaking the impersonal wood and brick of the functional, modern gymnasium. Here was my first experience of being a representative person...

Author: By Peter C. Rollins, | Title: Learning to Live With A Degree From Harvard | 2/3/1971 | See Source »

...going to play at Boston University on November 21st, he started making plans. He arranged to get his tickets as soon as the box office opened ( the concert was sold out in a day ) and when the 21st finally came, Murph was at the door of B.U.'s Sargent Gymnasium, with food and friends, at one in the afternoon, ready for the 8 p.m. concert. Seating was first-come first-served, and Murph planned to be first. Meawhile, Frank was a couple of miles up Storrow Drive at Soldier's Field, selling his and Murph's Yale-game tickets...

Author: By William S. Beckett, | Title: Come Hear Uncle John's Band . . . | 1/7/1971 | See Source »

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