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...feature of the Amherst Gymnasium is a billiard room, containing two billiard tables and one pool table...
...room. Every student in the college must submit himself to a thorough examination three times during his course, and the resulting figures will be grouped together, and thus the average health and development of the college can be obtained from year to year. Above the entrance is a billiard room containing three tables, for the use of which only a small fee is charged sufficient to keep the tables and furniture in repair...
...Simpson, another on the men chosen for the European lacrosse team, will be remembered as a billiard player on the Harvard team of last year...
...which is now used as a carpenter shop, seems to be standing in the cold and waiting for somebody to fix it up. Bicyclists are sadly in need of such a place to keep their machines in, and also it is a good place for a reading-room and billiard room. There is space enough in the building to make four or five large rooms. The Pope Manufacturing Co. had last summer several agencies around the country, where they kept bicycles and tricycles to let; they also taught riding. Now, perhaps they could be prevailed upon to take...
...time. The school owns many miles of mountain forests and to induce the students to exercise the authorities have laid out long walks through them. Regular instruction in riding, shooting, swimming, fencing, and dancing is compulsory. In an old cloister are two bowling alleys and in another building are billiard and reading rooms. There is also a splendid library containing many very old and valuable manuscripts. A custom which would be very attractive to a Harvard man is that there is no marking system. At the end of the term each student is given a certificate of his attainments...