Word: hemenway
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...with a fund of $9,500, $8,000 of which was subscribed by Henry Bromfield Rogers '22. At first the structure was adequate to the needs of the College, but soon the small dimensions, 74 feet wide by 40 feet high, proved insufficient, until in 1878, when Augustus Hemenway '75, of Boston, gave $100,000 for the erection of a new University gymnasium. The architects were Messrs. Peabody and Stearns, of Boston, and the contractors, Norcross Bros., of Worcester. The building was opened in 1879 and was then by far the largest, best equipped, and most handsome college gymnasium...
...however, it was 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...
Face to face with the same problem that the University met back in the seventies, the CRIMSON now turns its back upon any possibility of putting the Hemenway Gymnasium into shape suitable to our modern needs, and will confine its efforts to bringing before every Harvard man the crying need of a new gymnasium. To that end we are publishing this morning a few facts about Harvard gymnasiums past and present...
...might be converted into we dare not suggest. The swimming bath is still in the future, for the suggested building has long been used as a museum. Today there are 3583 students in Cambridge departments of the University--an increase of 2628. When the agitation that resulted in the Hemenway Gymnasium first started there were 955--an increase...
...much greater therefore are our present needs than in 1878, when Mr. Hemenway contributed so liberally in the good cause. Aside from statistical proofs, the consistently poor records of our basketball, fencing, swimming and gymnastic teams alone show that there is something at fault. All point to our overcrowded, ill-ventilated, unsanitary Gymnasium; and the managers of these teams personally confirm the contention...