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Hemenway Gymnasium attracts more than halt of the college athletes, its average rising from, 424 men daily in December 1920, to 621 men in December 1921 and finally reaching its apex with 725 men daily in January...
...University of Pennsylvania last week sounded a novel note in U. S. collegiate architecture. Designs for its new auditorium, seating 2,500, have been changed to octagonal perpendicular Gothic, of solid yet soaring effect, somewhat ecclesiastical, topped by a gossamer-thin spire which rises sharp from the pointed apex of a central square tower...
...oldest tradition. "It has been going on now for 300 years." Perhaps it is now giving way to the beginnings of a new one, noted these last fifty years a flair for early specialization. The broad base of the pyramid may be done away with altogether, and the apex will be erected on a scaffolding of light, standard-size steel girders. --New York Times...
Modern football has been revolutionized by the great development in the forward pass which reached its apex in the Dartmouth attack of 1925, but modern football has not been barred from college activities because of this. Football in nineties was practically barred and would probably have been stopped had it not been legislated against most decisively, and the cause of this was the famous "flying wedge...
Small boxes near the apex of the Delta will hold six to eight persons while the larger ones near the Hall will hold 12 to 16. The table will seat from one to three couples and will be placed in the middle of the Delta. Boxes and tables will be furnished by the Committee. The larger boxes will be occupied as usual by clubs and other organizations...