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Harvard lost one of its most conspicuous benefactors with the death yesterday at his home in Readville of Augustus Hemenway '79, donor of the gymnasium which bears his name. Mr. Hemenway, who was born in Boston in 1853, made the gift on his graduation; the gymnasium, completed in 1875 and greatly enlarged by the donor in 1895, replaced the small, octagonal Rogers Building as an indoor athletic center, and was considered at the time the finest of its kind in the world...
...Hemenway Gymnasium, which has been used by the University since 1878 as a recreational building will be primarily intended for those Graduate Schools located north of the Yard and Massachusetts Avenue, J. B. Wallen, Director of the Building, announced, although the gymnasium will continue to be open to all members of the University as hitherto. This will make a very convenient division of the aggregate facilities of Hemenway and the New Indoor Athletic Building...
...special exercise. Of those who later fulfilled all the requirements of the University, 40 percent asked to be reinstated. At the present time, upper classmen and graduate students are admitted to the classes on request, and in 1928, when this arrangement was first made, the cramped rooms in Hemenway were swamped...
...sabre. The winner of two weapons is accorded the match. Scheduled to start at 2 o'clock, this tournament, is open to all members of the University, and prizes will be given for first and second places. Men thinking of entering the lists are asked to sign up at Hemenway gymnasium as soon as possible...
...semi-finals of the University boxing tournament will take place at 8 o'clock tonight in the ring at Hemenway Gymnasium. Matches will be staged in the 125-pound, 135-pound, 145-pound, 160-pound, 175-pound, and heavyweight classes...