Image provided by: Washington County Cooperative Library Service; Hillsboro, OR
About Forest Grove press. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1909-1914 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1910)
Supplement to Forest Grove Press, August 25, 1910 The New Gymnasium of Pacific University cC7ie Çymnasium is the newest of the college buildings. It re T h e Swimming-pool is of regulation size, 2 0 by 6 0 feet, with depth places the old building which for many years has supplied as well as an varying from four feet at one end, to nine feet at the other end. It is incomplete building could the athletic needs of the student-body. substantially constructed of reinforced concrete, and made thoroughly water-proof with several layers of asphalt and cloth in its structure. It has concrete steps at one end, and a ladder and spring-board at the other; also brass rails along all the sides just below the top. 1 he floor and baseboard of the room about the pool are of terrazzo, a combina tion of cement and marble, and the walls and ceiling of the room are enameled in white. P a c ific ’s N ew G ym nasium It is a substantial structure, exceptionally pleasing in external ap pearance, and with its interior arrangement so planned as to give a max imum of efficiency with a practical economy of space. T h e main entrance opens directly upon a corridor of generous size. Immediately at the left is the “trophy-room” and ticket-office. at the right, the stairs to the main Gymnasium floor above. A nd T h ese stairs are designed for the use of the general public, there being other stairways for the use of students leading up from the locker-rooms, that Sw im m ing-P ool for the girls at the north end of the building, and that for the boys at O n the floor above is the main gymnasium, 50 by 100 feet, equipped with necessary apparatus of most approved type. It provides abundant space for the usual class-work and calestherucs, also for basket ball, hand-ball, and indoor baseball. Rooms for the Director, and the examiner are located conveniently adjacent. A gallery with its concave running-track extends around the main gymnasium, and is suspended by iron rods from the heavy trusses of the roofing. I he running-track is twenty-three laps to the mile, and is covered with heavy cork-carpet. ¿XCain F lo o r o f G ym nasium the south end. A t the farther end of the corridor is a door that opens into the visitors’ “C age" which looks out upon the swimming-pool. Doors at the right and left respectively lead into the locker rooms for the boys and the girls. These are fitted with steel lockers of the most approved type fitted with keyless “time-locks”. 'Tjhe " G y m " fr o m y lc ro ss the Cam pus 1 he gymnasium is well-lighted by windows about the gallery, arid by a large sky-light I 4 by 3 6 feet; while three large ventilators, aggre gating 3 0 feet in length, placed in the ceiling, provide plenty of pure air. T h e students, boys and girls alike, will enjoy and appreciate the new gymnasium. G allery -R u n n in g Track. From the locker-rooms are doors opening into well-appointed shower-rooms, through which the students must pass in reaching the By its use athletics at Pacific will be put upon a more systematic basis than has heretofore been possible. Mr. james O . Colville, of Salt Lake City, who has had large ex swimming-pool. T h ere are also suitably arranged toilets adjacent to perience as an instructor in Athletics, has been secured as Physical D i rector. H e will have charge of the gymnasium and direct its classes. the shower-rooms. I