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...practice in well-appointed tanks, obviously at a great disadvantage. The apparatus of the Gymnasium is in general good, but in many cases antiquated, such as the rowing machines. The sanitation of the building is imperfect, danger of disease being increased by the impossibility of sufficient ventilation and the present uncleanliness of lockers and corridors...
Apparently, there is no possible way of satisfactorily improving the present Gymnasium to make it meet the needs of today. The building is entirely out of date, and is so constructed that any attempted changes or additions could not relieve the conditions nor could they do away with the dingy equipment inside. The only way out of the difficulty is a brand new gymnasium, so situated that it would be accessible to all the teams and individuals who cared to use it, and of such dimensions that it would be adequate for the needs of the University for some time...
...upon any possibility of putting the Hemenway Gymnasium into shape suitable to our modern needs, and will confine its efforts to bringing before every Harvard man the crying need of a new gymnasium. To that end we are publishing this morning a few facts about Harvard gymnasiums past and present...
...members of the Hughes and Taft clubs, as well as all Republicans not at present identified with either of these clubs are urged at once to join the Republican Club...
...report for the year 1872-3 President Eliot says, "The gymnasium of the University is completely outgrown . . . it is not possible to enlarge the building with advantage. As the University has plenty of unoccupied land, it would be advisable . . . to erect a plain wooden building and to convert the present gymnasium into a swimming bath. . . . In 1859, when the gymnasium was finished, there were 623 students in Cambridge departments of the University; there...