Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-11-18
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In the upper story, too, there will
be provided opportunity for training
men for indoor athletics. A board
track will run around the inside wall
of the entire building, which, while
this track is not in use, will be avail
able for spectators of baseball prac-
tice and track sport taking place on
the mother earth below.
On the ground floor, under the
main building, the plans show a space
where swimming pool of large size
will be constructed ultimately if pres
ent intentions can be carried out On
either side of this open cellar run out
the huge wings, lofty shells sur
rounded by the galleried walls.
The roofs, all glass, and the win
dows, numerous and near together,
should make these inclosed and shell
tered spaces as bright as the day out
side, and the proper temperature Will
be maintained by system of steam
heating fed from the central plant of
the college.
The skylights of the wings will
stretch 40 feet from the ground and
will be protected with wire gratings
so that the baseball can be batted as
well as thrown, and Dartmouth ball
teams, which for years have practiced
in a chill and dimly lighted wooden
cage" on a dusty floor of rough
boards, need never again come down
to play Harvard having had less than
a week of adequate practice before
the event.
The greatest length of the gym
nasium will be $50 feet.
The greatest width of the long wings,
which make possible the long running
stretch, will be 10 feet north and
south, while the dimensions of the
gymnasium proper contained in the
cross are 200 feet north and south and
80 feet, a part of the greatest length
of the building, east and west.
The baseball diamond will be located
in the west wing, while in the east
wing, in addition to the room for
field events, there will be space for
several handball courts.
Reinforced concrete will be the ma
terial chiefly used in the building of
the new gymnasium.
The design, while by no means or
nate, possesses dignity and the beauty
of long lines. The building in itself
and by reason of it's proposed loca-
ton will handsomely round out the
present group of college buildings at
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preSsive structure, with its strong
and simple Roman arch construction,
it's arcaded entrance. There will be
decided hint of magnificence about
it.
1t is planned to build it in the form
of cross, parallel to the street as to
its greatest length. 1t would be en-
tered by the shorter arm of the cross,
the other arm giving upon the athletic
field, where almost as much level
ground is now available as Harvard
has reclaimed in Soldiers Field. The
gymnasium will be located north of
the oval, nearly opposite the Alpha
Delta Phi house.
The gymnasium proper according
to the plans, will be located within the
arms of the cross and that section of
the long building to which they join.
The long wings will contain the huge
open spaces.
On the main floor the trophy room
will be situated, and this trophy
room, it is believed, will be the very
heart and soul of Dartmouth ath-
letic life. 1t will be as large in itself
as Bissell hall, 65 feet by so. Two
monstrous fireplaces will yawn at
each other from opposite walls of
enameled brick, every brick bearing
the name of a Dartmouth man who
gave of his substance for the build
ing of the Dartmouth gym. The
walls will all be of brick, and not a
brick unnamed, so the optimistic and
enthusiastic alumni leaders declare.
In the bricks will be set bronze tab
Dartmouth donors who have contrib
uted to the good cause.
Beyond this trophy room, not empty
of painted footballs, cups and banners
even in 1909, will be the locker room
with 1000 steel lockers, the lava
tories and shower baths and the dress
ing rooms of the athletic teams.
These will give upon the field, now
known as the oval, but capable of
considerable enlargement.
The new gymnasium, however,
which leading alumni are setting to
work to provide with such entire faith