Word: gyms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lights were on in indoor Athletic Building gym last night even though the last of the over-flow students had moved out earlier in the day. Varsity basketball coach Bill Barclay was putting 23 of his charges through their first workout in preparation for the 1947-48 campaign...
...associate dean of the College, declared last night that he originally hoped to have all men in new rooms by today, but that conversion of suites in the Houses has taken more time than expected. He predicted, however, that everyone should definitely be out by Tuesday and that the gym floor would probably be cleared by the end of the week...
...hardship cases-should be brought into the confidence of those making allocations. Just as the looser critics of the housing powers-that-be could well lend a patient car to the full scope of the issue, so those in authority can not afford to lean complacently back with the gym-dwelling's finale at hand...
...help give Cal's commuters a campus spirit, Sproul sponsors monthly "University Meetings" in the gym or the Greek Theater. He invites V.I.P.s in education, sport, politics and military affairs to headline the bill (top drawing cards: Philosopher John Dewey, the late football coach Knute Rockne). Introducing a student leader who had just been disciplined for raiding the Stanford campus to steal the traditional "Axe" before the Big Game, Sproul remarked at one meeting: "You all know Don McNary, who has represented this university officially many times and unofficially at least once." That sort of indulgent presidential view...
...rumor had gone around that Columbia University wanted Sproul as president, at a whacking figure. Nearly 8,000 students jammed the gym, chafed impatiently until Governor Earl Warren, '12, finished a long speech. Then up jumped husky varsity halfback and Student President Ed Welch. Grabbing the mike, he cried: "We've been trying to steal a coach from another university. Now another university is trying to steal our most important man. We can't go on without Bob Sproul!" The band played For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. A blue-&-gold banner implored: STICK WITH...