Word: gyms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gym Turns Dorm Again...
...approximately 480 men arriving in February, the University will house about 285. Applications are still coming in at the rate of about five a day, and Watson disclosed that from 50 to 100 men would be forced to live at Hemenway Gym temporarily...
...next day's meals, and the scarcity of employees to complete the post-dance work all conspire to defeat the cause of the dance committee. Of the two remaining possibilities, Memorial Hall and the Indoor Athletic Building, Men Hall is already occupied by the Law School dance and the gym is committed to quartering the Yale students...
With the football season came the weekends of the Big Game and the dance in the college gym or the local ballroom afterwards. The collegiate circuit, which had brought many a big-money dance band (Glen Gray, the late Glenn Miller) to the top, was in full swing. This season a new face, and a surprisingly young one, had cornered the market: 21-year-old Elliot Lawrence...
...stands the P. T. system does not give students enough time to fulfill their requirements, but if the athletic week were increased from five days to seven, by opening the gym and the squash courts on Saturday afternoons and on Sundays, Freshmen would be able to worry about their studies during the week and their social contacts during the weekend. A loss of sixty cents per athletic ticket and the additional cost of extra men to staff the buildings over the weekend would be a cheap price for the comfortably solvent H.A.A.to pay if it bought Freshmen peace of mind...