The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-02-19
COMBINED MOVEMENT is ON
FOOT FOR ONE At WHIT
MAN COLLEGE.
Plans for the Erection Of Building to
Cost Fifteen Thousand
Dollars.

every BOY at w hltman. "A gymnasium
is now the most pressing need tina,
Whitman college ever had says every
member of the faculty. Students and
faculty have together come to the
opinion that Whitman cannot longer
do without a gymnasium. A COM
bined movement Of monster dimensions
is on foot to raise funds tor the cree
ton of a new gymnasium on Ankeny
field. The students feel that if the
college does not have a gymnasium
soon Whitman will have to drop out OF
the intercollegiate race entirely. Up to
| two years ago with student body OF
! less than $50 Whitman used to beat
Pullman and Moscow with student
| bodies of over three times that number.
| football pennant for four years, Whit
| man lost the baseball championship
| last year. got worsted in both track
| meets and got the BOBBY prize in
| football again this year. Said a prom
| inent student to Statesman reporter
| this morning: You can't expect us
fellows to win victories for Whitman
college and Walla Walla without any
facilities for training. We can't pre-
| ship when we are only able to practice
! from > TO O'Clock three days in the
| week in the Conservatory for fear OF
disturbing classes, because there is
no other place to play. How can you
| expect US TO put up a good athletic
show with only a 20 by 40 barn TO
practice in. Pullman has cracker
jack modern gym and Moscow is build
| ing one of the best on the coast If We
| don't get one and pretty quick too,
we are out of it for good. That's the
| way We feel about it. We must have
| d gym and we are going to get it.
you bet
The members of the faculty feel
equally strong on the absolute neces
sity of a gymnasium being built be
number Of students is constantly in
creasing. The facilities for developing
the physical side of students are en-
tirely inadequate. The success of ath-
i letics in the future depends on having
| a gymnasium at once. Whitman is
| the only institution of any size in the
three states of Oregon. Washington
and Idaho which has not a gymnasium
| of some sort. Even little normal
schools have far superior equipmen,
| in this respect. This need if not met
at once will seriously cripple the
whole future OF Whitman college.
Never since the day the funds We're
raised for the Memorial building has
the institution faced so serious a crisis
as now.
Nothing definite has as yet been done
towards directing this sentiment to-
wards results, but next Tuesday a
monster mass meeting of the boys anG
another of the girls will be held to
discuss ways and means Another
demonstration is looked for next Tues
day, which will excel the famous Red
Letter Day when the boys Of Billings
hall made up the $1,000 short to build
the hall The students and faculty
n l<o ia
be had and declare themselves willing
| to make personal sacrifice to get it,
large committee of faculty and stu
dents will have direct charge of the
campaign for funds. Professor An
| derson will be president and Professor
Hendrick secretary and treasurer.
The plans of the committee at pres
ent are somewhat as follows:
A $4,000 gymnasium is wanted but
only about $4,000 will be raised by
the committee. At the student meet
ings Tuesday the students will make
voluntary contributions. No one will
give less than IS and it is thought
of the amount subscribed is to be pay
able when $4,000 is raised and the
balance within one year thereafter.
The faculty expect to contribute lib
orally and reports of their aggregate
contribution will be made to the stu
dent meetings. 1t is expected that al
least $500 will be thus raised by stu
dents and faculty within the college
itself.
The rest. it is hoped, to raise on the
outside. 1t is felt that the interest OF
the people in the college and the i'm
portance Of the growth Of the college
to the business prosperity of the com