Word: hemenway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the temperature outdoors these days is considerably below this pleasant level the caretakers over at Hemenway gymnasium must try to maintain a constant 70 degrees every afternoon from 2:30 p.m. on. Coach Jack Barnaby and his squash team swing their stunted tennis racquets at the little black ball and expect it to bounce back with a normal velocity...
...years ago a man walked into Hemenway armed only with a squash racquet. His knowledge of squash technique amounted to roughly the idea that a racquet, a little black ball, and four walls could make a varsity squash player. Of course a few basic things were missing in his concept. It wasn't until after he had spoken to Coach Barnaby that he became fired with a desire to play the game, and a willingness to go through long hours of practice. Tomorrow this man will be in the starting lineup when the team journeys to Hanover to play Dartmouth...
Fifty years ago, in the days of bloomers and tin bath tube, Radcliffe cheered the addition of a permanent brick gymnasium to the cluster of building up Garden Street. Mrs. Augustus Hemenway, wife of the donor of the University's Hemenway gymnasium dedicated the now structure in June...
...primitive quaintness, from the time that the first Radcliffe athletic class met in October, 1898 until Mrs. Hemenway's gymnasium opened its doors five years later, only a handful of bloomered lasses turned out for sports classes each term...
...first year of gymnastics, the inadequacy of facilities became apparent. The continuous cry for a sports center was finally answered by Mrs. Hemenway, and a wave of sports enthusiasm immediately overran the Annex...