Word: caging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...Larger Cage Possible...
...that over a year has passed since the Athletic Association announced that it possessed funds enough to construct a swimming pool, nothing has been done to remedy the situation. The baseball team has been forced to spend their long period of spring practice in a small and badly planned cage. Plans were made public for a new cage on Soldiers Field which was to have been completed this spring, but of this, too, no more has been heard...
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...