Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large group of graduates and undergraduates Initiated this spring a fund drive to pay for the construction of an enclosed artificial ice rink for Harvard. The drive was started in response to a longfelt need, and as a direct result of the closing of the Boston Arena's ice surface to college hockey. Alexander H. Bright '19 spokesman for the group and former graduate president of the Varsity Club, yesterday stated that the drive is now in its most crucial phase, and that many donations would be greatly appreciated at this time...
...need for a hockey rink at Harvard has been a long standing one. The first Harvard-Yale game was played at St. Nicholas in New York (Yale 6, Harvard 4) on artificial ice when name was available at either school. At present, Harvard remains the only Pentagonal college without its own rink, or an arrangement which amounts to the same thing...
Athletic Director Thomas D. Bolles has called the lack of a rink the "Achilles heel" of Harvard athletics, and the college administration, after a plea by the graduate and undergraduate groups, has issued studies determining the amount needed for the rink...
...placid little (pop. 6,949) Midland, Ont. on the shores of Lake Huron, 24 newly arrived German workmen last week began uncrating $100,000 worth of optical machinery in a rented curling rink. The workers, from Leitz's famed optical works at Wetzlar, began setting up lens-grinders, buffers, drills, in preparation for moving into a new $200,000 factory near by. There they will assemble Leica cameras, photo accessories, special lenses, and aim for a share of rearmament's precision optical orders...
Although the Corporation must devote its efforts to educational projects before it can turn to sports, there is still a need for hockey facilities. We hope that the interested group of alumni will turn its resources towards building a less elaborate rink. There is a good chance of raising the money for it, while the old plans will probably never leave the drawing board...