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Athletics officials cited the need for expanded racquet facilities and a new entryway to justify their arbitrary destruction of the Cage. But there is plenty of space for facilities behind the Harvard Stadium. And if such an historic structure could be knocked down only three years after being renovated, we cringe to think of what modern monstrosities are next. Astroturf lining the soccer fields? Luxury boxes grafted onto Harvard Stadium...
...year-old cage was torn down last Friday to make room for an expanded entrance to the University's athletic complex and to accommodate a planned racquet facility, University administrators said earlier this month. All that remained of the building yesterday afternoon was a heap of splintered wood and twisted metal...
Although the cage was renovated just three years ago, administrators intend a new training facility in the planned racquet structure...
According to Harris S. Band, director of comprehensive planning, the cage will be demolished to accommodate a new racquet facility being built behind it and to "create an appropriate entry point to the eight major athletic buildings...
Athletes, however, will have new playing spaces as soon as Harvard can afford them. Harvard plans to build a tennis and racquet facility in Allston which, according to project manager George Oommen, will be completed within the next two years once funding is secured...