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Contracts have been let for the erection of an athletic building on land belonging to the Randolph Land Trust, between Linden and Plympton streets, in the rear of Apthorp House. The building will contain a tennis court, a racquet court, two squash courts and a swimming pool. The whole equipment will be of the latest type and will embody all the features which have proved most successful in buildings of this kind during the last few years...
...found necessary to increase the capacity of the building, and Mr. Hemenway built an addition with four tiers of lockers and a shower room. This gave accommodations for 2,500 students and increased the floor-space to 15,000 square feet. Within two years after this the concrete squash courts in the rear were added. Since then, although the following ten years constituted Harvard's most rapid period of expansion, nothing has been materially done to keep up with our gymnastic needs...
...work on the old part of the club house is practically completed, and the three squash courts on the top of the building are finished, as are also the twenty new bed rooms, which are one of the most important features of the new club. They are intended primarily for non-resident members, and are to be furnished by graduate classes. Each class will adopt one room as, in a sense, its own, placing its class number on the door and class photographs and other memorabilia in the interior. All the rooms have been already taken in this...
...main floor of the club, in addition to Harvard Hall, an entrance hall and a large cafe. Above will be the library and several smaller rooms. With the exception of the sixth the remaining floors will be taken up by 23 bedrooms. On the sixth floor will be three squash courts with locker rooms and shower-baths...
...will be utilized for a dining room. While the restaurant in the old club can with difficulty accommodate fifty people, the space in Harvard Hall will provide for two or three hundred. The fourth and fifth floors will be occupied by bedrooms to accommodate out-of-town members. Two squash courts are to be built on the roof. The architects for the new addition are McKim, Mead & White; the contractors are Norcross Brothers...