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What particularly troubles the Law School Committee at the moment is the failure of the Linden Street squash courts to supply the needs of the whole University, and the overcrowding of the Hemenway Gymnasium. At Hemenway there are even freshman basketball teams in practice, further squeezing out the graduate students who would like to use the floors. And even the facilities for exercise which do exist are so little advertised and pushed into the public eye by the authorities in charge--a conspicuous example is Soldiers Field--that many who come to Harvard from far-away colleges never even know...
Prior to the opening of the Indor Athletic Building in 1929, the Hemenway Gymnasium was the University's chief scene of indoor activities for fifty years. Having been closed last year, it was reopened in the fall under the guidance of Howard Cox 3L, principally for the use of students at law, education, and theology among whose buildings the gymnasium is situated...
...Bock is squarely behind the proposals, believing that the number of Law School men who come to the Infirmary is directly due to the lack of athletic facilities. Another prime mover in the activity is James A. McLaughlin, professor of law, who was mainly responsible for the opening of Hemenway Gymnasium. It is also thought that the dean of the Law School is behind the movement. Dean Pound did not sympathize with such activities among the Law School students, believing that they should spend all their time on their studies, but both Landis and the acting dean, Morgan, believe that...
Another specific demand is that squash courts be established in Hemenway Gym since the committee declares that here are not more than two courts daily open for Law School students
...director of Hemenway he will be coach of the second Freshman basketball team, conduct the games for compulsory Freshman exercise and lead a calisthenics class from 5 o'clock to 6 each afternoon. The calisthenics class will be much the same as the one conducted last winter primarily for crewmen, with the exercises being done to the accompaniment of music. Tom Bolles, the new crew coach, has urged all his men to attend these classes...