Word: asphalting
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...bachelor's degree. But between ourselves in the Intercollegiate Civic League, what, pray, is there about our college training, our four years of fraternity life, athletics, and electives to enable us to guess within gun shot of the amount necessary to run a board of health: whether asphalt pavement is an inch or a foot thick; whether a tenement house department is spending too little or too much money; whether a city budget should be $143,000,000 or $100,000,000; or just where economy is possible...
...instigation and partial expense of the University a new asphaltic paving has been laid on Cambridge street and Broadway, extending from the Gymnasium to Quincy street. The paving is somewhat different from that made with ordinary asphalt and is unusually durable. It will do away with the large puddles of water that gather along Broadway, near the entrance to Memorial Hall...
...large new chemical laboratory has been fitted up in Dane Hall in the two rooms formerly occupied by the Co-operative. Asphalt topped desks individually supplied with gas, water, and electricity have been put up and both rooms well lighted by electricity. The upper room is especially well lighted, as it is very high studded. The two rooms together will accommodate 150 men, and are furnished with private offices for the instructors and their assistants...
...weather continues favorable there will be no more indoor work this season. Since early in January the squad has been working with the weights and dumb-bells, but from now on the training will be entirely different. The sprinters, including the quarter-mile men, will play handball on the asphalt court, and will practice starting, etc. The distance men will work on the road, walking out a considerable distance and taking a run back with a break near the finish. The weight men will begin throwing the hammer and putting the shot as soon as the ground is in good...
...hand-ball courts have been built behind the Gymnasium. They are the same size as the old ones and with them entirely enclose the asphalt pavement...