Old Gymnasium

Female students swing bowling pins in Dickinson's first women's physical education class.

Front row: Alice Kronenberg '89, Lenora Whiting '91, Wilhelmina Scarborough, Elizabeth Low '91

Middle row: Mary Himes '89 (non-grad), Jessica Longsdorf '91, Mary Curran '88

Back row: Hildegarde Longsdorf '88, Alverda Yocum, Sara G. Yocum '91 (non-grad), Mary Evans '89

Female students participate in a physical education class involving manipulating poles.

Female students train using weights in Dickinson's first women's physical education class in 1888.

Students by number: Mary Curran (#1), Mary Evans (#2), Sarah Yocum (#3), Elizabeth Low (#4), Wilhelmina Scarborough (#5), Alverda Yocum (#6), Hildegarde Longsdorf (#7), Jessica Longsdorf (#8), Lenora Whiting (#9), Mary Himes (#10), Alice Kronenberg (#11).

Student gymnasts pose for a photograph amongst their equipment in the Old Gymnasium around 1890.

Student gymnasts form a human pyramid in the Old Gymnasium after the Mid-Winter Athletic Contest around 1890. 

Top: Herbert William Westwood '93

Middle Left: Henry George Budd '91

Bottom: Either Vergil Prettyman '92 or Cornelius William Prettyman '91, Van Pierce Northrup '92

View of the Old Gymnasium from W. Louther Street circa 1890.

View of the Old Gymnasium from the corner of N. College and W. Louther Streets circa 1890.  The cupola of West College is visible in the distance.

View of the old gymnasium and the heating plant around 1895. The photographer is standing behind Old West, looking due east.

View of Tome Scientific Building around 1895. The Old Gymnasium and the Heating plant tower are visible in the background.

A crowd watches as the college bell, which is on a wagon, moves through the academic quad. The bell will be installed in Denny Hall.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: "The Seniors in cap & gown constituting the guard of honor." 

The Heating Plant and part of the Old Gymnasium are visible in the background.

View from the intersection of West Louther and North College streets around 1910. The Phi Delta Theta house and Old Gymnasium are on the right side.

View as 32nd Army Air Corps Cadets eat a meal in the Old Gymnasium, which serves as their mess hall in 1944.

View as 32nd Army Air Corps Cadets eat a meal in the Old Gymnasium, which serves as their mess hall in 1944.

View as 32nd Army Air Corps Cadets eat a meal in the Old Gymnasium, which serves as their mess hall in 1944.

View of the Old Gymnasium, which serves as the 32nd Army Air Corps Cadets' mess hall in 1944.

View of the Old Gymnasium, which serves as the 32nd Army Air Corps Cadets' mess hall in 1944.

Students eat in the Old Gymnasium Dining Hall around 1955.