Word: iab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cliff Alexander with 17 points sparked the Lowell basketball team to a 53 to 39 win over Leverett. Earlier at the IAB, Dudley defeated Adams, 44 to 34, Dunster squeeked by Kirkland with a 37 to 34 victory, and Eliot dropped Winthrop...
Lamont, instead of swelter-free, is stuffy as the IAB...
...most part, though, the IAB's history, like the building itself, has been solid and unspectacular. Its beginning, however, was enlivened by a sense of mystery brought on by the fact that the building's donor refused to make himself known even to former Director of Athletics William J. Bingham. "Alumnus Acquaticus", as he preferred to be known, first offered the University $100,000 for a swimming pool in 1926, and then, after a series of confidential talks, agreed to give a total of $250,000 for an athletic building. The University was to supply whatever additional funds were needed...
During the last war the IAB underwent its most trying days. In 1941 approximately 70,000 men were using the building, but by 1943 the figure had jumped to 426,000--under their compulsory physical training program the armed services units stationed at Harvard marched their men in by the company. Frank Vaughn, the present superintendent of the building, was at that time a very successful swimming instructor and trainer, but long hours of work with service units so damaged his voice that he had to give up teaching completely...
...requirements of a new site, an area fifty-five by seventy feet (the dimensions of a ten place range) has proved a great problem. The best answer so far is the basement of the House Squash Courts building, the stucco excrescence surrounded by Kirkland, Lowell, Eliot, and the IAB. There is sufficient room there for a ten or twelve place range, and the concrete walls are strong enough to withstand a 22 bullet...