Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope for the Framingham contest melted, another game was tentatively added to the schedule. Though not yet officially confirmed, the contest will probably be played with New Prep under lights Friday night on the Brookline Country Club's indoor rink...
...worked as a candy butcher on trains, then as a dress salesman. In 1918, he and his brother plunked down $1,500 in savings to lease a dilapidated building called the Hippodrome at Gloversville, N.Y. (pop: 23,329). With the Hippodrome, variously used as a theater, roller-skating rink and dance hall, he made enough money to buy Gloversville's two movie houses. Snapping up other small-town theaters by the dozen, he soon owned one of the biggest independent circuits in the U.S. His Schine Chain Theaters, Inc. now operates upwards of 150 theaters in New York, Ohio...
...answer to all this, William J. Bingham '16, director of athletics, has made a carefully worded reply which, if not remedial, is at least explanatory. Before the war, the University used the Boston Skating Club rink at $35.00 an hour. During the war, with University support largely lacking, the Skating Club was forced to rely entirely on the public, and apparently it did very well. The rate is now $85.00 an hour, a sum which Mr. Bingham deems prohibitive, to say the least...
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...issue seems to resolve itself into the construction of a University-owned indoor rink. Even though some charitable alumnus were kindly disposed toward the financing of such a project, however, Bingham asserts that the problem would be far from solved. The Hobey Baker Memorial Rink at Princeton costs $8-9000 annually in maintenance over and above the revenue taken in from renting the ice to the public and to nearby schools such as Lawrenceville. Furthermore, the H.A.A. would have to follow a policy on any rink of its own similar to its policy with regard to the Stadium, which...