Word: billiards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wing of the building contains a billiard room, with sixteen billiard tables, on the first floor. The library, located on the second floor of the same wing, is divided by three partitions into a periodical room, a library for recent publications, and a library and writing room, presumably for the use of students taking notes. It has been suggested that the basement of this wing be divided up into offices for the Athletic Association, the CRIMSON, and other student bodies which require permanent offices. There has been some discussion as to the advisability of the CRIMSON occupying any part...
...wish to take a light lunch in the building, and two small dining rooms either for students and friends who are visiting Cambridge or for the training tables; the latter have been suggested. A grill room would thus be at one end of a long hall with the billiard room at the other end. The third floor of the wing can be divided into three or four rooms to be used as the House Committee shall determine in the future. One room could be used as a private study; another could have tables for games, such as checkers, chess...
...billiard and pool rooms, bowling alleys and swimming pools, there are provided opportunities for harmless amusement-- one of the chief objects of such a club--as well as opportunities for the students in the various departments to come into contact making them feel that they have interests in common and seeming to unify and strengthen university spirit...
...entering the club house the visitor is at once ushered into a spacious reception room, with couches, lounges, and easy chairs. To the right is a large billiard room, and to the left a well-equipped reading room. Two handsome stairways furnished with cosy window seats lead to the second story. Here the public services of the Y. M. C. A. are held, and general entertainments. The rooms of the athletic-association and also those of the Y. M. C. A. are on this floor. The third floor contains the offices of the college papers, the headquarters of the musical...
...Harvard will be greatly changed for the better by the erection of a building containing a large assembly room, a trophy room, a hall for the musical clubs and the debating societies, offices for the college publications and the managers of athletic organizations, baths and a swimming tank, a billiard room, lounging and reading room, a first-class restaurant and separate lunch room, and a few suites of rooms to be used in entertaining visitors of the University...