Word: squashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University has killed three birds with one stone. With the announcement that a new Hemenway gymnasium will be built containing twelve regulation size squash courts, comes the solution of three serious problems. This gymnasium will remove the difficulty of giving graduate students quick exercises in an accessible place. It will also relieve the strain on the capacities of the University squash courts and lastly will take care of the pressing need for regulation rourts for the squash matches with outside colleges. Of these three dead birds, the first is by all odds the largest...
...Hemenway Gymnasium, as it stands today, does not solve the problems of exercise for law school students at all. Infested as it is with freshman and varsity squads, and provided with no squash courts, it is shunned by a large percentage of the Langdell Hall inhabitants. What is more, a game of squash implies an expedition down to Linden Street one day to sign up, and again on the next day to play; and most of the students do not consider it worth the time or the effort. But next year with the courts at its back door...
Coach Harry L. Cowles yesterday issued the call for all squash candidates to report at the University courts on Linden Street at 4 o'clock this afternoon. All those unable to report at this time may do so at 5 o'clock on Wednesday...
...squash courts are to be built where Gannet House formerly stood. Until these are ready for use, work on the Littauer School cannot be begun, Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University said yesterday, for it would leave no places for the Graduate students to exercise...
Plans for the squash courts are being rushed to completion, however, and he expects that ground will be broken in the early spring. After that, the Hemenway Gymnasium will razed and work started on the new building which will be finished as soon as possible. Until then the Graduate School of Public Administration will be located in Hunt Hall...