Sailing Pavilion

Another 21st-century view of Walker, with Green in the background, from the river side of Memorial Drive.

Near the end of Ames Street, with the river and Boston in the background, stands the Sailing Pavilion.

MIT had (doubtess still has) a Physical Education requirement, but it wasn’t much of a burden on us negligibly-athletic types. Inasmuch as we could (and did) fulfill it with such pleasurable enrollments as badminton, candlepin bowling, and sailing on the Charles.