Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toronto University Hart Hall is a single large building, a sort of Union, in which most of the undergraduate activities are centered. There are squash courts, a swimming pool, dining room, meeting places for student organizations, a hall for debating, a considerable library, everything connected with the life of the college. I was surprised to find that there is a committee in charge of the dining room even a committee supervises the servants. Each department of activity is in charge of its particular undergraduate committee...
Fathers and sons will go to Soldiers Field in the morning, at which time informal baseball games will be staged. All equipment necessary for the games will be supplied by the H.A.A. It has also been arranged that the new pool will be available for fathers and sons, so that they will be able to try out the spring boards and beginner's pool throughout the morning until 12.30 o'clock...
...have eaten in the Union all winter and seen no signs of the failure upon which the authorities base their decision to close the place. The common rooms have been well filled. There has been no lack of men to fill the easy chairs, use the chess tables, the pool rooms, the magazine racks, or the library. The dining rooms have always seemed well patronized. One must usually wait one's turn at the barber shop...
...That would leave these men no better off than before the House Plan, but incomparably worse off. There must be hundreds of men living in apartments, rooming houses, and cell-like old dormitories who find the Union their one gathering place. Are they to eat in cafeterias, go to pool rooms for their billiards, play their bridge with the fourth man sitting on the bed? It was with such men in mind that Major Higginson donated the building. It is doubtless within the letter of his will to make the Union a freshman eating hall instead of a University club...
Gathered at a luncheon in Manhattan's decorous Bankers Club one noon last week were 50 of the nation's Biggest Businessmen. The occasion: to collect the first $1.000,000 of a $2,750,000 fund to build and endow a new swimming pool, dormitories, infirmary, library, auditorium for the Shanghai American School. Among those interested in what Principal Elam J. Anderson had to say were: Martin Egan, staff member of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Mo-tormaker Walter Percy Chrysler; Herbert Lee Pratt, board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New York and his Vice President Howard Ellsworth...