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From the standpoint of undergraduates no more suitable report could have been submitted than that which was made by the Committee of the Alumni on Athletics. A new baseball cage, a new boat house, a swimming pool, new squash courts, even a skating rink, a golf course, and a polo field have been recommended. Student opinion has long urged these objects as real needs. Several of them have been promised repeatedly, and the swimming pool for one seems to have received all but the official sanction of the Corporation. Now that the Alumni as represented by their committee have taken...
...baseball cage, a new boat house, a swimming pool, new squash courts, a skating rink, a golf course and a polo field, are all suggested by the committee as necessary additions to the University athletic plant. In the beginning of the report the Committee expresses its complete approval of the present attention paid by the University to athletics, and expresses sympathy with the statement of Professor Mendell of Yale that "athletics make education safe for the Yale undergraduates...
...with such an enterprise as it, actually is. But when the Senior class returns the verdict, as it did on this recent questionnaire, that there is more undergraduate interest in swimming than in crew, hockey, or track, then it is high time to consider the construction of a swimming pool a matter of considerable importance...
Thus Harvard today has no swimming pool that is worthy of the name. It flounders along in two rain-barrels and a nearby river, while many think that this delinquency is caused by lack of funds or a proper building location. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Athletic Association has adequate finances which it is only too willing to devote to a pool; it has had them for some time. Moreover the plan of constructing a pool on the site of the Hemenway Gymnasium which might have conflicted with a projected chemical laboratory was abandoned in favor...
Certainly the increased attendance at football games has not diminished the surplus which formerly accrued to the Athletic Association each year. It can not be the lack of funds that prevents the building of a new gymnasium, swimming pool, or baseball cage. The reasons for this postponement would interest the undergraduates...