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...entrance to the gymnasium is on a level with the street, and on the ground floor is the swimming pool. This pool will contain 240,000 gallons of filtered water, and will be about twice the size of the tank in the Yale gymnasium. Around the edges of the building will be placed showers, needle baths, lockers and dressing room...
...gymnasium will be, like the pool, in the shape of a half moon. Over its widest part it will be 170 feet, and in it every conceivable apparatus for physical development will be made use of. Overlooking the floor of the gymnasium will be a great balcony, Suspended from the ceiling, where it runs over the gymnasium and circling the entire interior of the building, is to be built a running track 12 feet wide and nine laps to the mile. In the southern portion of the building will be athletic rooms, boxing rooms, fencing rooms and directors' appartments...
...baseball management announces that season tickets are on sale at the usual place opposite Boylston Hall. I would like to ask why the headquarters for Harvard University athletics cannot be located in some other place than a tobacco store with its billiard and pool connections. The associations of such a place are very distasteful to many of us, but at present there is no other office where we can secure tickets for the games, or obtain information about many of the events of the college year. If other stores of a different character are unwilling to grant this privilege...
...last been opened to the students. The building has been fitted up with an indoor tennis court made by Wilson and Silsby, the famous sail makers of Boston, and also has two excellent bowling alleys. It is the purpose of the committee in charge to place shuffle boards and pool and billiard tables in the building and, if possible, to fit up a handball court. The tennis court is said to be the finest indoor court in the country and the greatest care has been taken in the selection and construction of all the apparatus in the building...
...draw the members of the different departments into closer contact with each other and as in the plan for the Harvard organization this end is obtained by providing certain definite conveniences to the members. Among these may be mentioned a reading-room and library, bowling alleys, billiard and pool tables, baths and lockers, and offices and headquarters for college publications...