Word: hemenway
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...devoted to athletic exercises. The gymnasium hall occupies the whole of what would ordinarily be two stories at the top of the building. Its size may be approximated in the mind of the reader, by learning that the track which is in a balcony like the one in the Hemenway gymnasium, is 21 laps, while the Harvard track measures 17 to the mile. The apparatus for this new gymnasium was prepared under the supervision of Dr. Sargent, and embraces all the essential machines for muscle making. Under this hall, on the third floor, are the lockers, 1024 in number. Connected...
...physical training of college students. It is, so to speak, but few years since the undergraduates at most of our colleges were left to shift for themselves. Now every facility is offered them for exercise of the body, as well as of the mind * * * * from Harvard, with its magnificent Hemenway Gymnasium, down to the smallest "fresh water" college, we note a steady improvement in this all-important branch of culture. Evidently we are soon to realize the time-worn maxim, mens sana in corpore sano...
...discloses a state of affairs which is highly creditable to the college. All the apparatus is in use, and not only by the men who are training for positions on our various teams, but also by the students whose only object is to obtain more private exercise. When the Hemenway Gymnasium was first built, it was thought that it would prove sufficient for the needs of the college for many years. If, however, the athletic interest continues to increase in its present ration, new accommodations will be needed in the near future...
...Columbia undergraduate seeing the fine appointments of the Hemenway gymnasium, said that Harvard ought to defeat Columbia at rowing every time, when the material for the crews of the rival colleges was the same...
Meeting to discuss gymnasium drill-Hemenway Gymnasium...