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To the Editors of the Crimson:
It is strange that in the plans for the University Club no thought has been taken for a swimming tank. One or two small tanks are being introduced for the use of dormitories, but a large pool, open to all undergraduates, is a want that has been felt for a long time. In the first place, it is a lamentable fact that many grown men, either because their homes are away from the water or for other reasons, do not know how to swim. In athletics, too, a tank could play an important part in making it possible to have water polo practice.
The proper place for such an improvement is of course, the Gymnasium, but it would be more expensive to add a tank to the completed Gymnasium, than to build one when the University Club is being erected; and, indeed, the cost of a tank is slight in comparison with the total cost of the building about to be put up.
The question is one of ever growing interest and is deserving of careful attention before the chance to take action on it is lost. UNDERGRADUATE.
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