Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...benefited by a half-hour's walk in the open than by an hour in the Gymnasium, where frequently a team monopolizes most of the floor space. The showers and lockers are absurdly antique, but one of the most crying needs in the way of equipment is a swimming pool. A new gymnasium embodying the three improvements just suggested and containing the usual paraphernalia together with increased floor space and a suitable trophy room is one of the greatest needs of the 3742 men here at Harvard...
With more men taking part in athletics the need for larger facilities will be felt more and more. Better athletic equipment for the University, including a modern and adequate gymnasium, with a large swimming pool an indoor track, new locker and shower rooms under the Stadium, and improvements on Soldiers Field, are legitimate ways to spend any amount of surplus from gate receipts. Outsiders are only too glad to pay to see College athletics, and it is only right that they should. This seems to me a legitimate way for the University to get financial aid for fostering general athletics...
This morning at 9 o'clock the Union will be opened for about a week to all members of the University, whether or not they are yet members of the Union. The dining room and the billiard and pool room will open tomorrow...
Owing to the demand for pool tables in the basement of the Union, the small pool room on the second floor has been closed and all the tables moved down into the large room in the basement. This room has been separated into halves by drapery one part, containing three pool tables and six billiard tables, for upperclassmen; the other, containing seven pool tables and two billiard tables, for Freshmen...
...Athletic Committee voted a sum of money for the purpose. The difficulty of carrying out the plan, was that there was no unoccupied room in the Union accessible to all students whether Union members or not. It is expected that as soon as the lease on the pool-rooms expires the room upstairs will be used for the trophy room. The matter is now in the hands of the trustees of the Union...