Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find no ice to safe on next season, if the Boston Arena goes out of business, as it seems to be doing. Since hockey is an important sport, both for varsity and intramural squads, the committee of undergraduates and alumni which recently began a drive for a new rink was acting none too soon. If those interested in the sport do not provide the funds for a rink, skaters will be left out in the cold...
Embroiled in the midst of scholarship drives and fund raising "efforts" for things like the Divinity School and a new theatre, the Corporation must leave hockey rink plans out of its bulging proposed-buildings portfolio. Despite the critical hockey situation the rink's supporters could not expect the University to back the drive. Such a campaign would draw funds away from the University's other, more important, projects. Without University endorsement, however, the elaborate, costly rink first proposed by the committee is impractical. A campaign for a more Spartan rink might succeed through the contributions of hockey enthusiasts alone...
...Hockey rinks, spare and simple, can be built for much less than the $600,000 originally suggested. A few years ago, Phillips Andover constructed an artificial, outdoor rink for $70,000, and the Taft School contracted for the same thing, with a minor modification...
...campaign to raise funds for the construction of a hockey rink here will probably continue and be expanded, George W. Chase '53 said yesterday, despite the fact that the Corporation Monday refused to give the drive its official backing...
According to Chase, if his group, working with alumni, cannot stimulate the donation of the $600,000 needed for the construction of an indoor rink, they will at least press for the construction of an outdoor rink, or rinks, with artificial...