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‘Women’s Gym \
Proposed for Campus

Project of Women’s Building Already
Given Some Attention as Preliminary
Architectural Drawings Have Been
Prepared

 

When the special committee of the University athletic board begins its
study next fall of needed improvements in the plant devoted to athletics
and physical training, it will find the department of physical education
ready to urge the erection of a woman’s gymnasium, or rather a women’s
activities building.

Claims for a field house, or more@=—

practice fields or tennis courts will
be presented, and with them will be
the project of a woman’s building.
Already the project has been given
sufficient study to result in an outline
of the enterprise, and to have pre-
liminary architectural drawings pre-
pared.

 

“There are as many women in the
University now as there were of both
men and women when Robinson
gymnasium was erected,” said Dr. F.
C. Allen, chairman of the department
of physical education. “By erection
of a woman’s building, the présent
gymnasium would be released for the
general exercise and physical educa-
tion program of the University.”

Miss Ruth Hoover, in charge of
women’s athletic activities, outlines
objectives of a woman’s building to
provide more sports-than-now~—pos-—
sible, notably archery, bowling, and
the like. By additional gymnasium |
space it would be possible for the
women to have their intramural in-
door games in the afternoon (at 4:30)
instead of having to divide time with ,
the men, and often schedule games
for late evening hours.

 

Miss Hoover visualizes a gymna-
sium with class rooms, corrective |
rooms, a dance studio with stage;
roofs fitted like steamer decks for
badminton, darts, deck tennis, shuf-
felboard and tennis; a lounge with
kitchenette to provide study room,
and a place for teas, parties, commit-
tee and club meetings.

“This building, with our excellent
outdoor playing facilities, will afford
the women of Kansas one of the most
complete instructional, recreational,

and social plants in the country,” she
says.

Tentative sketches have been pre-
pared for the proposed building by
James Bounds, a student working

 

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