Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large a University as Harvard, the lack of a modern swimming pool is a serious one. The Big Tree pool, originally intended for one dormitory alone, has long since outlived its usefulness. Neither its swimming nor diving facilities are practicable. There is significance in the fact that the swimming team is forced to rely upon the hospitality of the Boston Y. M. C. A. for a suitable place in which to practice--a condition unfair alike both to the members of the team and the members of the Association. The team must waste time in travelling to and from Boston...
...only the team, but the college as a whole suffers from this lack of a larger pool; for the Big Tree has lately become so crowded by Freshmen who are working off their athletic requirement that neither Freshmen nor upperclassmen drive any benefit from trying to swim there. A new pool of regulation size, with better accommodations, is necessary if either team or individual swimming is to make head way in the University...
...corrective exercises will do so in the Freshman Athletic Building. Meanwhile at the University Squash Courts, once an adjunct of Randolph Hall but now open to all students now that Randolph is owned by the University, men will be playing squash racquets and handball. At the Big Tree Swimming Pool, which formerly was for the exclusive use of men who lived in Dunster Hall, but is now college property, some 30 or 40 Freshmen who don't know to swim will be learning to. At the Hemenway Gymnasium there will be boxing, fencing, indoor track work, wrestling...
...Howes 1G.B. will be in charge at the Big Tree Swimming Pool and will instruct all Freshmen who do not know how to swim. Other members of the University can avail themselves of this privilege...
...privileges of the Union will include a series of six tea-dances on the afternoons of football games; lectures by prominent men on subjects of general interest; a pool and billiard room, where instruction in those games will be given free to all members who wish it; a library and reading room, where magazines and newspapers from all parts of the country will be on file; and various special entertainments...