Word: gyms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gym instructor, Mrs. Bruce Hamlin, Swampscott, will take over Annex dance classes and the dance group this fall, succeeding Mrs. Morris Haviland...
Seventy-two members of the class are due to register for the fall gym courses regularly required for freshmen and sophomores. The new total of juniors on gym pro notably tops last year's number of 41 girls who failed to complete the two-year gym requirements...
...quarterback is the man about whom the play revolves. Leahy finds that new quarterbacks learn five times as quickly on a basketball court indoors. By wearing sneakers indoors, they have more traction and develop more self-confidence in their ability to spin and cut. At Notre Dame, the gym is also used for pass-catching drills, with passers bouncing footballs off the backboards; it makes Leahy's players more adept at grabbing deflected passes during a game...
...Hurley was about ready to give up. Then last summer the manager thought he saw a light: after wandering aimlessly one Sunday into the cavernous Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, Fighter Foster got religion. He became more serious in his training; at his request, cursing was barred in the gym. Foster gave up carousing, went to Bible school twice a week, sang in a choir, carried a zippered Bible wherever he went...
...girls are all experienced rowers. In 1945 the aspiring mates rowed for gym credit at the Weld Boat Club, where they used singles, fours, and standard eight-man shells. Harvard took back its facilities at the end of the war, however, and the girls were forced to discard their chamois pants...