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Finally there was Germain G. Glidden '36, an artist whose portrait of Harry Cowles hangs in Hemenway Gymnasium. Picking out Glidden's lightening speed as his greatest asset, Cowles, with inspired genius, gave him a tricky three wall shot, the "boast," that only an extraordinarily fast player could risk using. Glidden's matches were always played at a blinding tempo, and he captured the National title in '36, '37, '38, and retired undefeated from national play...
...Rockefeller Center-the boast is not literally true. But to many of the university's neighbors on Morningside Heights, Columbia is about as popular as a slum landlord. Last week 150 demonstrators, including many sympathetic students, clashed with police while trying to block construction of a new university gymnasium on park land that some residents of nearby Harlem wish to protect. Thirteen protesters were arrested. The confrontation was the latest in a long series of emotional disputes involving Columbia and Morningside Heights, a neighborhood whose residents are a mixture of Negroes, Puerto Ricans and white intellectuals attracted...
Separate but Unequal. Resentment at the university's land-buying policies spilled over into the gymnasium dispute. Columbia got the city's permission to put up a $9,500,000 building in Morningside Park, long a bottle-strewn, crime-ridden buffer between the campus and Harlem. The university plans to devote the ground floor to a free community gymnasium and swimming pool, use upper floors of the building for its own athletic programs. Although this would be the only such public facility in the neighborhood, well-organized protesters called the project "a land grab" and "a desecration...
Colin Adair became the first foreigner to win the U.S. singles squash championship in 15 years when he defeated fellow Canadian Peter Martin yesterday in Harvard's Hemenway Gymnasium...
...other side of the Longfellow School gymnasium, they were sorting the canary-yellow School Committee ballots and making an unofficial count...