Word: pompeiian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...make practical use of the dormant gymnasium fund of $10,000, he sounded interested persons on the matter, and all favored the project. A Boston architect was consulted. Plans were drawn up for a regulation pool to fill the lower part of the Union. It was to be in Pompeiian style, to measure seventy-five by thirty feet, with over fourteen feet bead room; to be ventilated artificially; to have an artesian well, and a filtering system; and to seat five hundred spectators. The estimated cost was $16,000, and only $6,000 remained to be raised, provided the gymnasium...