EXPENSE MAKES GOLF COURSE PROHIBITIVE

"A golf course is altogether too expensive to get, in the first place, and to keep up afterwards," said Major F. W. Moore '93, Graduate Secretary and Treasurer of the Harvard Athletic Association, when asked yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter about the immediate prospects of a golf links for Harvard men.

"We need a swimming pool, and additional indoor athletic plants," he continued, "and we are required to pay part of the expenses of the Department of Hygiene as well as operate four athletic buildings, our annual surplus will not stand any further burden. A golf course would certainly be a fine thing to have, but it means an expenditure of between two and three hundred thousand dollars. Moreover, one difficulty with a college golf course is that the students are not around during the biggest part of the playing season. The fact that many of the students would take up golf for the first time would mean that the destruction done the links would be considerably more than in the case of an average club course. Naturally the golf team would have to play over a course in perfect condition.

"I doubt whether college authorities would approve of sport which involves so much time. We made inquiries a year or two ago and found that there was practically nothing available for many miles outside of Cambridge and that the cost even of distant possible sites was prohibitive. Incidentally the President is not in favor of a subscription being taken up among the graduates for such a purpose."