Word: basement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sophomore and freshman tug-of-war teams are now hard at work. The candidates for positions on the '89 team tug every afternoon on the cleats in the basement of the gymnasium from 5 to 5.30 p.m., The freshmen start in just as soon as '89 gets through and pull for half an hour. The sophomore candidates for anchor are Perry and Pfeiffer, while the freshmen trying for the same position are Higginson, Sturgis and Chamberlain...
...rowing room, a base-ball cage, a swimming bath, bowling alleys and other rooms. It also contains a large lecture room, which may be completely isolated from the rest of the building, so that it could be leased for public uses. The heights of the stories are as follows: Basement, 12 feet; first story, 12 feet; second story, 10 feet; and third story, 22 feet. Columns being objectionable, they are avoided by the use of trusses...
...basement in front is taken up by the swimming bath on the right and a hall and lavatory on the left. The swimming bath, eighteen by fifty feet, is lined with enamelled brick. It has a lavatory extending out under the sidewalk. Under the right hand court is the base-ball cage, which is well lighted by windows and skylights. The left hand side is occupied by four bowling alleys in the rear. On the right is a private stairway for the use of men in exercising dress...
...present it seems a pity to divide the basement evenly between base-ball and bowling, when the college, individually and as a whole, takes so much more pleasure in the former more important sport...
Since the publication of the communication to the CRIMSON with reference to the wretehed state of the basement at Weld, the college authorities have had plumbers investigating the difficulty. They find that some of the pipes were in a rather bad condition, but they have now been thoroughly repaired...