Word: poole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since 1920 there has been vociferous, though somewhat sporadic agitation for more attention to the athletic facilities of the student body in general. However, none of the appeals for a new gymnasium, for a swimming pool worthy of the name, for more tennis courts and playing fields, attracted the attention which has finally been forced upon the athletic authorities by the success of the new policy...
...this case, may fairly be assumed a fore gone conclusion. Indoor athletic facilities are, however, in even greater need of improvement and extension. May the energy of Mr. Bingham, for instance, materialize in the near future the often rumored but at present highly intangible new gymnasium and swimming pool and swimming the means to sustain the spirit of "Athletics...
...swan-caretakers swelling the number of swan-attendants to 1,043. Daily these pampered birds waddled forth, led by a cream-colored First Swan, between lines of soldiers. For an hour the road along which the swans waddled was blocked to other traffic. Then they waddled into their sacred pool, swam like 300 small white clouds serenely on the waters, quacked, splashed, fought, cohabited and waddled back at eve to their holy swan house...
...boys of the lower east side at the Tompkins Square Building of The Boys Club which has been in continuous service for fifty years. The new Branch will be the largest building devoted to boys club work when completed and will include the most modern features as to swimming pool, gymnasium, class, club and game rooms and other equipment. The district in which it is being erected is thickly populated having an estimated "boy population" of 15,000 within a few blocks. The Boys Club, Tompkins Square Building has an active membership...
...warm Madeira sun shone upon sweltering tourists, upon monkey venders feeding sugar cane to their wares, upon Portuguese loafers strolling about with a sow on a string, upon swart policemen impressively asleep- finally upon the Earl of Birkenhead who walked in a bathrobe, worn toga-fashion, beside a pool into which no one cast ?100. That evening the so dapper gentlemen were merry. What a joker His Lordship was, to be sure! Mr. Shaw was not half so clever. Haw! Pretended he would jump into the pool, haw! Who but His Lordship would even have thought of it? Perishable! Positively...