Word: hemenway
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course admit the great, the pressing, need of a new gymnasium building to take the place of Hemenway, long antiquated and outgrown. Even more obvious is the ardent wish of every Harvard man that in time there be erected a fitting and enduring memorial which may ever stand as a concrete tribute to those who fell--a tribute that will recall to successive generations of Harvard men the glory and honor due that gallant group of three hundred and four soldiers and sailors...
...reason, which the "Illustrated" seems to have overlooked, that a gymnasium is not suitable as a memorial. No matter, how elaborate or how modern it may be, no matter what care is spent on planning and construction, any such building will eventually become antiquated and useless--even as Hemenway is today, although when the latter was completed in 1879 it was revolutionary in its magnificence. In the "Harvard Herald" of October 2, 1883, we read "It can fairly be said that the new Harvard Gymnasium has been the parent or sponsor of almost all the modern college gymnasiums...
...general gymnastics has proved to be a great success so far. However, attendance has been chiefly from the undergraduates, and the gymnasium authorities wish it expressly understood that the class is open to all members of the University. Members of the Law School who have formerly used the Hemenway Gymnasium are especially urged to make used of the Randolph Gymnasium this year...
...steel lockers will be installed in Hemenway instead of the wooden ones which were removed when the building was turned over to the Radio School. There is a pressing need for new equipment but the greatest need is for the building itself. The Randolph Gymnasium was hardly large enough last year when the number engaged in indoor athletics was extremely small owing to the small enrollment and the time taken up by military activities...
...history of the Radio School is one typical of fast growing war activities. It began with a few men in the Cruft Laboratory, and gradually has taken over more and more buildings, many of them belonging to the University. It has used Memorial Hall, Pierce Hall, Hemenway Gymnasium, and, finally has built its own buildings on the Common. These buildings will now disappear, for the citizens of Cambridge, who never favored erecting barracks on the Common, have decided that the area is of too great historic value to allow the present structure to remain...