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...proposal to use the money subscribed for a new gymnasium toward constructing a swimming-pool in the basement of the Union should be seriously and favorably considered by the Student Council and the contributors at once. From the point of view of the University as well as of the Union itself nothing is more desirable than such a pool, nothing more imperatively needed...
...which have been undergoing revision for some weeks by the Graduate Advisory Committee of the Intercollegiate Swimming Association, have just been announced. In the swimming rules the "flying Dutchman" drive has been eliminated. The scoring for the prescribed and voluntary dives remains the same. The question of dividing the pool into lanes for a dual meet was left undecided...
Best of all, however, would be the effect upon two larger problems. The University has long been obliged to share with all Cambridge the pool of the Y. M. C. A., but hundreds of other students have practically done no swimming at all because of the lack of good opportunity. Almost every other university of any size has a pool; and none would think of giving it up. At Yale four hundred men swim every day. The lack of a pool at Harvard is far from a cause for pride...
Such a move would also prove a boon to the Union. It might even completely remove the Union's financial difficulties. Hundreds more men would probably join. The pool would add the last needed argument to convince many who already recognize some of the other attractions of the Union...
...gymnasium fund, there is no prospect of its being used for its original purpose in the finite future. And its $10,000, with a small addition which could doubtless be obtained from graduates would be enough for the pool...