Word: useful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concerning the remaining fund, which roughly presents $450,000 Mr. Bingham revealed that the Athletic Committee had once more by unanimous vote recommended to the Corporation its use for the completion of the gymnasium...
...hesitation of the Corporation and its previous decision denying the use of the surplus in this emergency, may well have been in the hope that some further benefactor might complete the picture. Thus far, such an event has not come to pass...
...Yale's new Institute of Relations building, President James Rowland Angell announced that the general education board and donated an additional $500,000, making available a total of $2,000,000, the remainder having come from the Rockefeller Foundation. President Angell believes that this building will be ready for use before the next academic year, despite a considerable delay caused by the refusal of a cobbler, Giacomo Como, to vacate a small shack until his lease had expired. An agreement was reached by which he will house his shop in another place, rent free...
...Freshman Library, which houses books for the use of first-year men in the departments of History and English, in addition to a splendid circulating library, has been moved. The building was for several years on Bolyoke Street at South Street, but plans for the new House behind Gore Hall required that the ground on which the building stood be cleared for the erection of the new plant...
...awarding the national swimming championships to Harvard. The Nationals come sometime in March, and at the present time, it is expected that the new pool will be completed in February. Of course, the meet would rest on the contingency that the pool be ready for use in good time, and it is possible that uncertainty on this score would prejudice Harvard's chances to obtain the meet. It is certain that the event would prove a gala opening for the new pool and would do immeasurable good in stimulating interest in aquatic sports in Cambridge. It is to be hoped...