Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard, after all, has a Varsity Club which could be made to do. But what about a new hockey rink, an expansion of the tutorial and advising system, more scholarships and aids, or additional athletic endowment...
Manager Hugh C. Foster '49 said last night that the team members supported the proposed club because they felt that it would benefit athletics as a whole more than a hockey rink. "Although we all believe that a hockey rink is a good thing," Foster said, "we feel that use of the money for such a speclalized purpose at the present time would be unjust...
...that it had a "moral obligation" to Allston Burr '89, and it is this which has served as the center of the controversy. Once you decide the "moral obligation" does not exist, then you can spend Burr's donation, which amounts to over one million dollars, on a hockey rink, a theater, scholarships, or whatever. But including "hockey rink" on a poll as a reason for not wanting a Varsity Club creates a false feeling in people's minds that they must choose between a rink and a new Varsity Club...
...built with this in mind. It will serve to focalize interest in College athletics, as a place where alumni can meet players, where visiting teams collegiate and scholastic--can be entertained. It will increase interest in Harvard sports to a point where further-donations, enough to build a hockey rink, will follow. The present Varsity Club, gloomy, small, and out of the way, is often inadequate, especially on crowded weekends...
...criticisms have been raised: First, critics say that Mr. Burr's interests in Harvard were many and not primarily directed toward a new Varsity Club. The Administration remains unconvinced. Second, critics say the University has more pressing needs (the Administration no doubt agrees); they cite a theatre or skating rink as examples. Such criticism does not solve but only postpones the question...