Friday, November 3, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Old Robinson was criticized, inadequate
Old Robinson gymnasium, now just a dead skeleton, had a rough life.
Built in 1005-06 at a cost of about $100,000, it was an object of criticism and a structure of inadequacy almost from the time it was completed.
Before that time, physical education classes, mostly in calis-
thenics, were held in the basement of old Snow Hall and the north dome of Old Fraser Hall. Chancellor Francis Snow appealed to the state legislature for a new gymnasium for a student body numbering between 2,500 and 3,000.
Went into immediate use Upon its completion, Robinson
went into immediate use for physical education classes, convocations and parties. With the addition of a 50-foot-long pool in 1912, swimming also was introduced. Not long after appeared the first inklings of problems to come.
"To Fix Gym Showers—System Entirely Wrong," read a Daily
Kansan headline in March, 1916. James Naismith, physical education director at that time, was quoted then as saying:
"Few persons understand what the real trouble with the showers in the gym is. The real trouble is deep-seated. In fact it runs all the way to the valves on the showers to the heating plant. The
hot water pipes are all coated with a thick lime scale."
'Pipes too small'
Acknowledging "the present pipes were really too small in the first place," Naismith said all new pipes and fixtures would have to be installed.
See Old Robinson, page 15
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