SWIMMING POOL GIFT OF FORMER GOVERNOR SPAULDING

Dartmouth students may look forward to a swimming pool not as a matter of vague hope but of certainty even though the date when that certainty will be realized is not yet determined.

The donor of the promised pool is the Honorable Rolland H. Spaulding, former Governor of the State.

The proposed swimming pool is to occupy a specially constructed addition extending south at right angles to the east wing of the gymnasium. The pool itself will be 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, lined with tile, and with runways and walls likewise of tile and other sanitary damp-resisting surface. The building will be of sufficient size to allow for a spectator's gallery for witnessing of swimming contests. It will be necessary to install a special filtering apparatus and a violet ray for the destruction of germs, together with auxiliary pumping apparatus.

The cost of the whole as estimated about the time when the United States entered the war was in the neighborhood of $50,000. The beginning of building will now wait until prices and materials have become sufficiently stabilized so that accurate estimates can be made and reasonable costs be assured. It is, accordingly, not to be expected that the pool will be begun in the immediate future; but men coming to college a year from next fall may reasonably look forward to enjoying a new athletic opportunity in the college life.

The plan for the pool addition to the gymnasium is being drawn by Charles A. Rich of New York, who designed the gymnasium. Mr. Rich's scheme contemplates the eventful duplication of the swimming pool building by another building extending from the west wing of the gymnasium. This would be for squash, handball and similar sports. The two new projections would be connected by an arcade or colonnade which would add much to the architectural dignity of the whole gymnasium structure and offer a splendid main axis for an enlarged and improved athletic field.