Word: gyms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pound class) in Donald B. Ray '49, Coach Jay Thomas of the wrestling squad will be able to muster a good team for the coming mat campaign. Despite the great preponderance of Freshmen prospects are good for the first match of the season against Tufts Saturday afternoon on the gym floor of the Indoor Athletic Building...
With all that interest, the Indoor gym's 1600 seating limit, imposed by the after-effects of the Cocoanut Grove fire, would be small potatoes. The Arena holds...
...high schools, about one in ten of the teachers were laid low by flu. In at least five, classes hardly missed a recitation last week. The teachers' places had been taken by a posse of students. At Lincoln High the 17-year-old football captain taught English and gym. Pretty Stella Bymakos stepped to the head of English 10B, and a scholar muttered: "Why couldn't it have been this week instead of last that I had to stay after school...
...Fellowships included: "The recording, translating and annotating of the Hudhud, a series of epics chanted as work songs and at death wakes by the Ifugaos, a pagan, terrace-building people of the Philippine Islands"; "A comparative cyto-histological study of the meri-stems of buds and of tropical ferns, gym-nosperms and woody angiosperms"; "A comparative investigation of the neuropsychological determinants of the phenomena of dissociation"; "A spectroscopic study and analysis of gases of the volcano Mauna Loa." Says Miller (who was refused a Guggenheim): "A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life [in the U.S.] than a creative writer...
Many of the wives have part-time jobs to add to their husbands' G.I. allowance of $75 a month (single men get $50). The college tries to keep them all entertained by letting them play squash in the men's gym, join in music, stage and handicraft groups. Next step: special classes for the wives...