GIFT OF HOCKEY RINK ANNOUNCED BY TRUSTEES

Following the fall meeting of the Board of Trustees held October 31st and November Ist announcement was made that the Trustees have accepted the gift of an anonymous donor which enables the College to proceed with the erection of a hockey rink. The building will be known as The Dartmouth Arena and it will be especially adapted to ice hockey. Construction will be started early in the spring.

This latest addition to Dartmouth's rapidly growing plant will be located at the eastern end of the Alumni Gymnasium; approximately on the site of the present outdoor hockey rink. It will balance the Davis Field House, which stands at the Western side of the gym, and the arena will harmonize architecturally with the other units of the athletic plant.

Mr. Parkhurst, the senior member of the Board of Trustees and through whom the announcement of the acceptance of the gift of the rink was made said that the Dartmouth Arena would be as fine a building of its kind as there is in the country. Besides providing excellent facilities for ice hockey it will be used as an auditorium for large gatherings of undergraduates and alumni. Seating accommodations for between three and four thousand spectators are being planned for hockey games and this can be greatly increased when the playing surface is not in use. The body of ice in the arena will be formed naturally. That is, there will be no artificial refrigeration used in making ice. A playing surface of natural ice is considered greatly superior to one of artificial ice and hockey experts have assured the Trustees that there will be no difficulty in holding a natural ice surface in the arena throughout a Hanover winter.

Detailed plans are being prepared by J. Fredrick Larson, college architect. These will be drawn up in consultation with the Dartmouth Athletic Council and the arena will be constructed under the supervision of the Committee on the Physical Development and Maintenance of the Plant. This committee of the Trustees is composed of H. B. Thayer, President E. M. Hopkins, Lewis Parkhurst, M. C. Tuttle, and Dean W. R. Gray.

The cost of the proposed arena was estimated by Mr. Parkhurst at $100,000.