Word: pools
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...last year. Though still in alliance with Phillips Brooks House Association the centre of the club's activities is now at its comparatively new house, 34 Mt. Auburn street. Here the club maintains its own assembly and reading rooms, its library of 500 volumes, and its game and pool rooms...
Rent acct., half-year, 1,007.50Care of rooms, half-year, 100.00Bedrooms, 163.00Pool room, 293.16Miscellaneous 32.88 $13,878.54 Expenses.House:Service, $3,246.29Board of help, 1,520.50Expenses, , 3,732.11Stationary 625.89Periodicals, 121.53House repairs, 602.14House linen, 61.49Entertainment, 425.78 $10,335.73Office:Service, 1,026.83Board, 352.00Library:Service, 437.00Expenses, 163.30General expenses:Taxes, half-year, 2,575.81Fire insurance, 241.64Boiler insurance 16.88Loss, 1.270.65 $15,149.19 $15,149.19SUMMARY.Six month's income, $13,878.54Gain on cigars, 468.98 Expenses.Current expenses, $11,714.56General expenses, 2,834.33Library expenses, 600.30Loss, restaurant...
Contracts have been let for the erection of an athletic building on land belonging to the Randolph Land Trust, between Linden and Plympton streets, in the rear of Apthorp House. The building will contain a tennis court, a racquet court, two squash courts and a swimming pool. The whole equipment will be of the latest type and will embody all the features which have proved most successful in buildings of this kind during the last few years...
...athletic problem now under discussion, something ought to be said in behalf of the swimming team, and of swimming as a college interest. To be sure, little is heard of this branch of the minor sports, but that is mainly due to the lack of any University swimming pool, an institution which is needed, for obvious reasons, just as much as a new gymnasium. The swimming team has always been as much handicapped for want of a place in which to practice, as would be the University football team if it were confined throughout its season to the baseball cage...
...those in power is to cut out even this team, which, moreover, has only four contests a year, necessitating two absences only, from Cambridge. Surely the time taken away from studies to prepare for these contests, especially when practice is very light, because of the lack of a pool, can hardly be said to injure a swimmer's standing in the University. PAUL WITHINGTON. ALLEN SWIFT...