Word: hemenway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to call your attention to a recent move on the University's part which is a rank piece of unfairness and poor administrative policy. My reference is to the new Hemenway Gym erected on the Law School grounds and its projected use by the varsity squash team, the freshman squash team and the freshman quintet...
...short, it was quite unbelievable when Rumor danced about with news of Hemenway. It would fill a great need, by affording the students an opportunity to exercise without a fifteen-minute walk to the overcrowded Gym. And now come the other tidings, that we have only six of the twelve squash courts, limited hours for basketball, etc. It seems to me that the Crimson is in a unique position to talk up for Harvard's Oliver Twist. J. A. Donovan...
...clock Monday morning the Athletic Association will officially open the New Hemenway Gymnasium, to which the finishing touches are being added today. Under construction since May 1 of this year, the building is now completed and ready to furnish squash, badminton, and basketball courts to members of the University...
...Hemenway, furnished with the most modern equipment available, replaces the original Hemenway, a gift of Augustus Hemenway '79 and built in 1879, when it was considered the finest athletic building in the world. After serving a useful purpose in undergraduate life for fifty years, the old gym gave way to the Indoor Athletic Building. When the site of the old Hemenway was taken for the Littauer Center, plans were made for a new and up-to-date building...
...preserve the atmosphere of the famous landmark, the slate from old Hemenway's roof and its original weather vane are used in the new building...