Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Transit Yearbook (Troy, NY)

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'Q .A asp '- .q. 4 .: 'U Proposed Gymnasium.

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Trustees PALMER C. :KIClili'lt'lxSA, ED ............ President ELLXS P. MANN, C.E ...... . . ......... Yice-President QIDHN SQUIRES, C.E .... ...... S ecretary l .xliL COOK, ABI' .... .......... T reasurer CI-IARLES 3'1A.XCDON.XLD, CE.. I.I..l'5. CEDRGE B. XV12I.l,lNG'1'0k,, .-MM., C.E., LLB. ROBERT VV. HUNT S'rEw.xR'r JOHNSTON, C.E. THEODORE XTOORHEES, C .E. LI. FDRD IQENT IEDXVARD C. GALE, C.E. ROl3ER'I' CI.Uli'1 1' I'IOR.XCE G. YOUNG, C.E. HYENIQX' NV. .HODGTL CE. JAMES H. C.-XLDNVELL, B.S. SXVILLIAM F. GURLIQY, AB. FREDERICK F. PEABODY GEORGE S. DAYISONI, C.E. IXLFRED H. RENSHAW, C.E. HENRY S. LUDLOW, AB. Prudential Committee Finance Committee PALMER C. RICRETTS ELLAS P. MANN joHN SQUIRES JAMES H. CALDWELL EDWARD C. GALE HORACE G. YOUNG 17

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The New Gymnasium . ,,,, t , T-Ill movement for a new gymnasium has been agitated ever since the lnstitute moved to the sf b. b present site on the hill. The old gymnasium is entirely inadequate for the needs of the number of students now attending the institute and its situation, so far away from the other buildings Q Q E and the athletic held, makes it unsuitable for the purposes of the school. The Alumni Association took up this movement at the annual meeting last june and I , 5 j appointed a committee to take up the matter of collecting funds for the purpose. Tracy C. Drake, '86, is Chairman and at the mid-winter reunion, held in Chicago last February, he announced that very good progress was being made towards collecting the required amount. The illustration presented herewith shows the proposed gymnasium as designed by Lawlor 81 Haase of New York under the direction of Dr. NV. L. Robb. The new building is to be located on the campus adjacent to the athletic field, and the architecture will correspond with the other buildings, the structure being of Harvard brick and limestone. The building will be three stories high with basement, eighty by ioo feet in dimensions, with a projection in the middle of the front containing the stairways and entrance vestibules. The basement will contain a swimming pool thirty by eighty feet, a locker room, with Q34 steel lockers, a steam room, filtration plant, toilets and wash room and a lounging reom nineteen and a half by forty-two and a half feet in dimensions. The hrst floor will contain a large entrance lobby, the Physical Directors office, dressing and measuring rooms, a fenc- ing room and a boxing and wrestling room. There will also be a basketball court thirty-seven by Ioo feet and a squash court sixteen by thirty-one feet, both two stories in height. The remainder of the second floor will be taken up with four bowling alleys and a balcony looking out upon the basketball court. The entire third Ho-or will be taken up by the gymnasium proper, with an elevated running track, twenty laps to the mile, and balcony seats in the corners. lt is estimated that such a building can be built and equipped for from 3I25,ooo to SI5o,ooo. These plans are very tentative and we only wish that such a proposed building had been in existence here during our course, so that we might have enjoyed some of the benefits. 19