SKATING FOR ALL

I think the H. A. A. should consider more seriously than it seems to have done the possibility of building a skating rink within the near future. That is the one thing needed to complete Harvard's athletic plant. I believe that the advantages of such a rink have been wrongly emphasized. Its use as a hockey rink has been so strongly emphasized as to hide its possible importance as an arena for skating, pure and simple.

It is that use which will make it mean most to the student body at large. Four or five-hundred persons can be accommodated in the usual indoor arena at the same time. It is evident that a skating rink would offer opportunities for an extension of the "athletics for all" policy, unrivalled by any sport except track. When the time comes that the construction of a rink is being seriously considered the authorities should plan to make it an attractive place to skate in. They should also make the proper accoustical arrangement so that the music for skating will not sound as it does at the Boston Garden and the Boston Arena.