Word: resorts
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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During the slack season of the year when the majority of outdoor sports are at a low ebb, the gymnasium becomes the general resort of those desiring exercise, health or athletic amusement. That boxing, indoor running, jumping, calisthenics and other gymnastic games furnish welcome opportunities for satisfying these desires is evinced by the fact that over five hundred men use it daily. So large a number overcrowd the present gymnasium, with its inadequate arrangement and appliances, but until the University is presented with a new gymnasium or is able to build an addition to the present one, such overcrowding...
...nation throughout our entire history. Enormous sums of money have been spent, and yet there is practically no taint of corruption in connection with spending them. American officials on small salaries have gone down to that tropical isthmus, have made it so healthy as to be almost a health resort, and have expended huge sums of money with vigilant economy as well as with singular efficiency in the actual work on the canal, and have done it so that there is not even a suspicion of a dollar having been taken by any of them. Very, very few private business...
...drop-kick occurred during the first part off the scrimmage. Just before the end, the University team was put on the defensive on its 10-yard line. The second tried six line plays but could not score. A forward pas was the last resort but that also proved useless...
...which they all stand equal." It has proved to be far more than this for it is now the recognized meeting place for many organizations, and mass meetings and smokers are usually held there. The restaurant furnishes excellent fare at a nominal price. It is also a reader's resort with a library and files of newspapers and periodicals, from all sections of the country. The basement and third floor provide offices for the undergraduate papers, the CRIMSON, Advocate and Monthly. In short the Union is an institution aiming not only to supply many material needs of the students...
...much to say that the irritation caused by a rule which gives to these students but a meagre festival period at the great season of reunion and rejoicing has an ill effect upon the reputation of the College, and deters directly and indirectly the resort thereto. The Governing Boards may well consider whether the Christmas recess should not be some-what lengthened. To all students save those within a very short radius Thanksgiving, since the recess which the Faculty at one time voted independently was abandoned, exists but in name, a sense of irritation, and a more elaborate dinner...