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Many men still find it pleasant enough to take a run on the track after their "gym." work in the afternoon...
...play billiards in the Gymnaseum as in any of the billiard saloons of the town. The following pathetic cry is raised. "If our spiritual guardians would bring the wandering sinner, who at present revels in the wickedness of the hotel billiard room, back to the fold of the new Gym., the most effectual way in which they can do it is by appealing to the financial interests of the above mentioned wanderer...
...morning after Mr. Blakie delivered his lecture "How to get strong and how to keep so" at Williams, half the students were working in the Gym. There are probably fewer by this time...
...prospects for success for the freshman nine," says the Yale News, "are encouraging; the competition for places has been brisk, some thirty men have been in training, and the work in the gym. has been faithfully done...
...unstability of all things collegiate as well as worldly, is furnished by the ease of the slang term "James," once in vigorous use at Harvard. but now fallen into complete desuetude. Only two years ago, it was a a common designation for what is now familiarly termed the "Gym." The pun was too ghostly for long life...