COMMITTEE TO COLLECT SWIMMING POOL FUNDS

The campaign for raising funds for the construction of the new swimming pool in the Union was started last night with the appointment of the following committee to take charge of the financial problem: Wallace Fleming '17, of New York, N. Y. (chairman); David Mason Little, Jr., '18, of Salem; John Franklin Cover, Jr., '17, of Lima, O.; and Hunt Wentworth '17, of Chicago, Ill.

The duties of the committee will be three-fold: to supervise the sending of post cards to the original donors of the Gymnasium Fund asking them to allow their donations to be applied to the Union pool; to attempt to raise money from graduates; and to supervise the collection of funds from the classes of 1918 and 1919. The two upper classes are not included in the undergraduate collection, as they have both contributed to the Gymnasium Fund and neither will have as long use of the pool as 1918 and 1919. The entire cost of the pool will be in the neighborhood of $30,000, of which $10,000 will be taken care of by the Gymnasium fund upon permission of its donors.

Under the proposed arrangement the swimming pool will be placed in that portion of the building now occupied by the H. A. A. offices, thus doing away with the objections advanced that the pool would be cut off from light and its dampness injure the rest of the building. The pool will be in the sunlight and will be entirely separate in construction from the remainder of the building. To insure a proper amount of sunlight, it is planned to have the roof of the additional building made of thick glass, except for a walk eight feet wide around the edge.