Brokaw Memorial, viewed from the southeast (photo from album, circa 1905)
Other license.
Source: "Gray Album", circa 1905 (Robert J. Clark), pl.16
Brokaw Memorial, a Colonial-Revival style club-house incorporating a swimming pool, was built at the southern end of the campus from 1892-96. Named for Frederick Brokaw, Class of 1892, who drowned the summer after his junior year, this structure also appears to be the root of the modern undergraduate myth concerning the university's mandatory swimming requirement. The story goes that Frederick Brokaw's parents gave the University a large gift on the condition that Princeton institute a swimming requirement. As with the ficticious story that Alexander Hall was a failed thesis project, it is a story not founded in fact.
Brokaw Memorial, a Colonial-Revival style club-house incorporating a swimming pool, was built at the southern end of the campus from 1892-96. Named for Frederick Brokaw, Class of 1892, who drowned the summer after his junior year, this structure also appears to be the root of the modern undergraduate myth concerning the university's mandatory swimming requirement. The story goes that Frederick Brokaw's parents gave the University a large gift on the condition that Princeton institute a swimming requirement. As with the ficticious story that Alexander Hall was a failed thesis project, it is a story not founded in fact.