OFFICIAL APPROVAL FOR POOL

The Corporation voted yesterday to approve the plan for a swimming pool in the Union. No definite action has been taken as to the raising of the funds for this project, which will cost about $20,000, but a portion of the money needed will probably be transferred from the Gymnasium Fund. This fund of $10,000 was entrusted to the Corporation with the original purpose of the construction of a new gymnasium, having been raised by the classes from 1913 to 1917, inclusive. If the consent of all the donors of this fund can be secured for using it for the new pool, the necessary balance could probably be raised by subscription.

The Corporation favors this use of the Gymnasium Fund, and postal cards will be sent out in tthe near future to ascertain the wishes of the donors concerning this matter.

The CRIMSON has throughout the entire campaign for the swimming pool co-operated with the Union authorities in securing plans to overcome all objections of those who opposed the plan. The original intention was to have a tank in that part of the basement of the Union left vacant by the removal of tthe CRIMSON to its new quarters. Owing to the fact that arguments were put forth which maintained that a swimming pool in that location would be injurious to the building as well as to people who lived continually in the resulting damp atmosphere and that no sunlight could get in, the CRIMSON obtained drawings and plans doing away with the ill effects. The new arrangement, as endorsed by the Corporation, plans to place the pool in the part of the building now occupied by the H. A. A. Thus the pool would be out in the sunlight and would be entirely separate in construction from the remainder of the Union. To insure a proper amount of sunlight, it is planned to make the roof of the additional building of thick glass, except for a walk eight feet wide around the outside.