The Spike: or, Victoria College Review, October 1906
The Gymnasium
The Gymnasium.
"Allow me such exercises as may become a gentleman."
—As You Like It.
The need for a gymnasium at College was very strongly felt during our last year at the Girls' High School, when the Football Club felt constrained to hire a room once a week for training. The distance of the St. Patrick's College gymnasium from the lecture-rooms destroyed, to a large extent, its usefulness to the Club, and it was hoped that some provision might be made in the new building for a training-room. The Students' Association approached the College Council, the Council approached the architects, and the architects reproached the plaster and said it wouldn't stand the strain of burly students jumping.
(1) | That a public subscription list be opened in aid of a gymnasium, but that no action be taken in the erection of a building until the actual amount necessary to build a gymnasium be subscribed. |
(2) | That a subscription list be opened to students of the college. |
(3) | That the Students' Association make a grant of £10 to the fund. |
(4) | That the money so collected be placed on deposit in a separate account in the Post Office Savings Bank, such account to be under the control of the Students' Association. |
It now remains for those who are interested in the gymnasium, who believe that it will form one more link of union between the students, that it will increase the chances for all round individual development as well as the efficiency of our organised sport, to show that they are in earnest. Success will depend much on the generosity of our friends, but there is reason to believe that there are friends of the University in Wellington who will be glad to help Victoria College to obtain a very valuable adjunct which would otherwise be denied.