Word: gymnasiums
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...view of intellectual training is that the college is a kind of mental gymnasium which develops cerebral muscles. The intellectual discipline and exercise of studying an academic subject are supposed to make the student a more perceptive, more logical, and more articulate alumnus...
...powerful Crimson squash team blanked Wesleyan 9 to 0 yesterday at Hemenway Gymnasium in its first match of the season. The outclassed Cardinals were able to win only two games in the entire contest...
POLITICAL democracy as it exists in the U.S., wrote Walt Whitman, is "life's gymnasium, not of good only, but of all." Even in Whitman's day, there were those (mostly those who knew least about politics) who insisted that life's gymnasium was equipped only with dumbbells, but then and now the fact is that politics shapes the daily life of every U.S. citizen; politics is indeed "not of good only, but of all." Last week, with the 1958 elections well in the past, the U.S. might have been expected to take a political breather...
...famed authority on swimming and physical fitness was director of athletics at Yale and curator of sporting art until a heart attack in 1949 forced him to retire. Previously, he had been director of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium...
...when they attacked the foundations of a large Roman-Byzantine structure called "Building B," they found a promising clue: a great marble block with an inscription telling that the Roman Emperor Lucius Verus (A.D. 130-169) had passed that way and given a sum of money to the gymnasium, which was probably a kind of school. This suggested that Building B might be the gymnasium mentioned. If so, the diggers were hot on the trail. According to ancient writers, the Sardis gymnasium was within sight of the royal palace of Croesus...