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December 10, at M.I.T.; and Waston Golf Club; 17, Harvard Club. January 7, Union Boat Club; 9, Wesleyan; 10, at Exeter; 14, at Newton YMCA; 21, at M.I.T. (Faculty Grads); 28, at the Tennis and Racquet Club. February 4, at Brooks School; 4, at Harvard Med. School; 11, at St. Paul's; 21, at, Exeter; 28, at Yale...
Getchell revealed that an early plan to schedule games with some of the better local high school teams had been abandoned, and that YMCA's and Service teams will provide the main opposition...
Bradford Durfee Prep School will be the target for the blades of the Yardling fencing team today. The meet will be held at the Fall River YMCA...
...when it finally opened its doors to the University in 1900, the Union had just been completed as a meeting and lounging place for undergraduates. At the time, too, a religious movement was sweeping the country. The YMCA had been organized with principles close to those Brooks had followed. So the massive building was used as its headquarters...
Competition soon began building up all over Cambridge. Harvard Square became a business and social center. The YMCA grow too large for the house and moved to its own quarters. Churches sprang up around the University and formed students groups of their own. By the early '20's, all the religious societies that had operated from PBH were dropped or absorbed by churches. According to a Yale divinity student in 1944 who did an extensive paper on Brooks House, religious interest here was "suffering from arterio-sclerosis...