The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-28
The LYMAN GYMNASIUM.
Dedication of the New Building to-
day With Addresses.
DR.. FRANCIS WAYLAND PRESIDED
President Andrews, DIR. Charles v. Cha
pin, DIR. william De witt and 9th o
and Tell Of the Necessity and Advant-
ages of the Gym.

The dedication exercises of the Lyman
gymnasium took place in the main work
room of the building promptly at 2:30
o'clock to-day. Mr.. Robert /. Gammell
planned the order of exercises, which was
carried out as follows DIR. Francis Way
land, '46, at present dean of the Yale law
faculty, acted as presiding officer. Before
he introduced the speakers he made few
preliminary remarks on the wonderful
advancement Brown had made during the
past twenty years, and especially within
the recent past. He compared the advan-
tages of the present student with those of
fifty years ago.
After these few remarks he introduced
DR.. William w. Keen. 49, the president
of the building committee. DIR. Keen in
few very fitting remarks mentioned the
pleasure it afforded him in behalf of the
building committee, to present to his
alma mater this excellently equipped
building; one which the college has greatly
needed for many years. A good gymna-
SUM training is the compliment TO good
classroom drill, and where both are car
ried on together much better results are
realized. At the close of the remarks he
presented the keys TO President Andrews
who then followed.
He first thanked the president of the
building committee for the excellent work
pressed the high appreciation with which
he received the building, in behalf of the
corporation.
He said that this building was one of
the most needed buildings of the college.
We are happy, he said, to add this one
TO our number.
He spoke of the marked advancement
the college had made within the past few
years and of the new additions i'm the way
of buildings: Wilson hall, the Ladd
observatory and now the gymnasium.
This building was at present of prime
necessity, and its lack has been one of the
great draw backs which the college has had
TO contend against.
In these days students choose colleges
where there is good gymnasium in
preference to one where there is none.
We need the building from point of
athletics. We have shown to the college
world that we can play ball, and now we
mean to try and show that we are able to
take our place in all branches of athletics
with the best colleges.
Then again, good physical training
together with the mental, make u sound
mind in sound body usually, and that is
what we need in this age.
DIR. Andrews address was followed by
music by the Glee Club.
DIR. &. V. Chaplin, the director of the
gymnasium was then introduced.
He spoke of the work performed and of
the plan already. adopted. Class exer-
cises, he said, had been arranged for and
the necessary requirements that would be
enjoined upon each student. That the
gymnasium had cost large sum and that
IL was not TO be left to be go-as-vou-
please sort of training, as this sort of
work had been the case heretofore.
This address was followed by music,
after which DIR. William Dewitt Hyde,
president OF Bowdoin College, gave an ex-
cellent address, in which he congratu-
lated Brown on the remarkably fine
building she had just received: He
spoke of what great value good gymna-
SUM was to n college, and very
kindly referred to the character of the
work done at Brown and the long list of
her alumni to be found everywhere. In
the course or his remarks he mentioned
Mr.. Parker, the instructor, as being an
excellent man for the place
The Glee Club then rendered another
selection which ended the exercises, and
Brown is possessor of first class gym
nasium.