Gregory Gymnasium
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and Swimming
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teams. The basketball teams moved out in 1977 to the Erwin Center.
Built in 1930, the gym was named after its main advocate and planner, Thomas Watt Gregory
Thomas Watt Gregory
Thomas Watt Gregory was an American attorney and Cabinet Secretary.-Biography:Born in Crawfordsville, Mississippi, he graduated from The Webb School in Bell Buckle, TN in 1881, Southwestern Presbyterian University in 1883, and was a special student at the University of Virginia...
. Gregory, an alumnus of the University, served on the University's Board of Regents and as United States Attorney General
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before the gym was built.
The gymnasium has undergone several renovations, and now consists of the original gym and a four-story annex that serves as a gymnasium with an indoor jogging
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track, basketball courts, racquetball
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and squash
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courts, an indoor rock-climbing
Climbing
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wall, a spacious weight room, and a cardiovascular exercise facility. Its use is allowed for free by all University students, and at low cost to University alumni and their spouses.