Word: indoor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Architecturally, unlike the long sequence that led from Harvard Hall to the Houses on the river and produced such works along the way as Memorial Hall and the Indoor Athletic Building, Yale stands almost entirely as the result of a mammoth 100-year plan laid down in 1924 to promote unanimity of design...
Also in Gothic is the Payne-Whitney Gymnasium, a cathedral-like structure which houses among other things, the original Handsome Dan, stuffed and mounted, and one of the country's finest indoor swimming pools with excellent seating accommodations for spectators. So numerous are the tiers of seats, placed almost vertically one above the other, that from the bottom one feels sunk in an enormous pit and from the top one has the sensation of an aerial view of the water below...
...Possible damage to the newly varnished floors, the difficulty of restoring the tables for the next day's meals, and the scarcity of employees to complete the post-dance work all conspire to defeat the cause of the dance committee. Of the two remaining possibilities, Memorial Hall and the Indoor Athletic Building, Men Hall is already occupied by the Law School dance and the gym is committed to quartering the Yale students...
...Beat Yale" is the legend scrawled in white chalk on every door and blackboard in the Indoor Athletic Building, and beat Yale was the motif which dominated an unusually long Monday workout. After working on several new plays designed for the Elis, the Varsity tested its defenses against the Bulldog T-formation attack, as run by Henry Lamar's Freshman eleven. Passer Jim Kenary played the role of Tex Furse, and Hal Moffle portrayed Levi Jackson...
Football fever succumbed temporarily to the November frost last night, with the result that a mere 400 Crimson rooters turned out to cheer for a win today against Brown, in the season's fourth major rally before the steps of the Indoor Athletic Building...