Word: aquaticus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rumored that Mr. Bingham and a certain select group really do know who this gentleman is) offered the Harvard Athletic Association $350,000 for an athletic building with the proviso that the University raise the rest of the funds necessary for its completion. In December, 1927, an "Alumnus Aquaticus" placed $100,000 in trust for a "swimmery" primarily for Harvard undergraduates. No less than two months later one "Anonymous Aquaticus" put the sum of $250,000 in trust for Harvard for an undergraduate swimming pool. The conditions were that work on this plant should start within one year of February...
Ground for Harvard's indoor, athletic plant was broken on the required day and the bulky walls have risen. Throughout the construction of the plant, "Alumnus Aquaticus" and "Anonymous Aquaticus" have carried on steady correspondence with Mr. Bingham, the while maintaining complete anonymity. Letters have been forwarded through the two New York banks in which the runds have been deposited; a steady stream of criticism and suggestion has been forth-coming on every architectural detail. And still Mr. Bingham, try as he may is unable to establish the identity of the two Harvard benefactors. A certain similarity in the letters...
...gift of $100,000 from a graduate known only as "Alumnus Aquaticus" is the first definite step toward an immediate start on the construction of a swimming pool primarily for undergraduates, it was announced yesterday by the H. A. A. Tentative plans call for the erection of a large indoor athletic plant with full equipment on land available between Winthrop, Holyoke, and Dunster Streets, and await additional funds for their execution...
...Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, professed ignorance of the identity of Alumnus Aquaticus." "He deposited the money in a Boston bank, and when ever I write to him, I leave my letter there," he said...