Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swimming pool on Holyoke street, though reserved almost exclusively for Freshmen, is so small that it fails to accomodate the first-year men who do not know how to swim. The University Squash Courts Building on Linden street now has twenty courts. The increased facilities at this plant will just about take care of the hundreds of men who want to play the game...
...Hemenway Gymnasium serves about 1500 men who participate in some form of exercise quite regularly during the indoor season. The facilities at this plant fall far short of being ample to accomodate the number of men who would like to use the equipment. In fact the building would be used to capacity if the facilities were reserved exclusively for men in the graduate and professional schools...
...exercise during the indoor season cannot possibly be met by the present facilities. Extensive alterations at the Hemenway Gymnasium, Squash Courts, and Freshman Athletic Building have failed to meet the ever-growing need of additional indoor space. The only possible solution seems to be the erection of a new plant to supplement the existing facilities. Such a plant should include facilities somewhat similar to those found in the Hemenway Gymnasium and in addition, a modern swimming pool. It might very properly be planned almost exclusively for undergraduates. This arrangement would provide the facilities needed for men in the college...
...facilities suggested for the proposed plant for undergraduates, a swimming pool is by far the most urgent need. Hundreds of men would welcome the opportunity to elect swimming for their regular exercise if ample equipment were available...
...immediate problem in connection with any plans for an indoor exercise building is the selection of a suitable site. The logical location for such a plant would be between Massachusetts avenue and the Freshman dormitories. With funds available to cover the cost of a modern swimming pool, it would seem to be in order to recommend such construction as soon as a satisfactory site can be provided. A swimming pool could be so constructed that it would become a definite unit of the proposed indoor exercise building when funds become available for that purpose...