The annual swimming championship meet of the National Intercollegiate Association will dedicate the Harvard pool in the new $1,225,000 gymnasium on March 28 and 29, 1930 it was announced last night by W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics. No Harvard aquatic team will take part in the competition.

Mr. Bingham extended the invitation to hold the championships at Harvard this season through Professor Frederick H. Leuhring, Director of Athletics at the University of Minnesota, who is chairman of the Committee of the National Intercollegiate Association.

Last year the championship meet was held at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, in keeping with a policy of rotation that governs the selection of the sites.

Although no Harvard team will participate in the national competition and no definite steps toward entering intercollegiate competition are yet planned, it was announced that an informal team would be sponsored during the 1930-31 season.

The development of the team must await the completion of the athletic plant which will not be wholly finished until June although the swimming pool will be ready in February. A seating capacity of 1500 persons to watch events in the pool, reputed to be the finest of its kind in the country, is planned for and will be ready for the championships in March.