Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual report of the Harvard Athletic Association, Mr. Bingham emphasized again the need for new hockey rinks. It is unfortunate that, due to the decreased income of the Association this year, permanent improvements have been necessarily curtailed. A hockey rink is among the most important of these. Uprooted from its proper home in Cambridge, and transplanted in Boston, the sport has not enjoyed the normal development it would have had nearer at hand. Despite the fact that it probably draws more interest than any other winter sport, no facilities are offered nearer than the Boston Garden...
...University and Freshman squads, started at 2.30 o'clock, and spent an hour and a half on fundamentals. Three forwards, and two defense men were set to work in shifts, while later on the players split up, and practised shots at the net at either end of the rink...
...think the H. A. A. should consider more seriously than it seems to have done the possibility of building a skating rink within the near future. That is the one thing needed to complete Harvard's athletic plant. I believe that the advantages of such a rink have been wrongly emphasized. Its use as a hockey rink has been so strongly emphasized as to hide its possible importance as an arena for skating, pure and simple...
...that use which will make it mean most to the student body at large. Four or five-hundred persons can be accommodated in the usual indoor arena at the same time. It is evident that a skating rink would offer opportunities for an extension of the "athletics for all" policy, unrivalled by any sport except track. When the time comes that the construction of a rink is being seriously considered the authorities should plan to make it an attractive place to skate in. They should also make the proper accoustical arrangement so that the music for skating will not sound...
There are many conceivable alternatives, a memorial class room building, a really useful and much needed auditorium, a skating rink or a new boat house. All these meet the apparent demand for architectural tangibility and at the same time are permanent and important contributions to the University's equipment and have a more nearly universal appeal...