Word: building
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the Corporation yesterday, permission was granted to the Athletic Association to build wooden stands in the Stadium for the Dartmouth game. They will be built at the open end of the Stadium and in front of the parapet below the cement seats, and will seat about 8,000 people. As the present capacity of the Stadium is about 27,000, these extra seats will bring the total to 35,000, or somewhat less than what it was for the Yale game last fall...
...coach. Mr. Donovan comes to an important position and one with varied duties and responsibilities. First of all he has to superintend the physical development of the large number of men who take their daily exercise in running. This is no small task in itself. Moreover he has to build up a team to represent the University, each of whom must be at his best at a specified time. For the success of this team he has to plan a careful campaign. In such work, persistence, patience, and sympathy are needed; they are needed not by the trainer alone...
...hardly permits of any out-door amusement, an unusually large number of men resort to the Gymnasium for exercise-to a Gymnasium not only absolutely inadequate, both in arrangement and equipment, but in its pro sent condition unsanitary to the last degree. Until we are presented with a new building, or are able to build an addition to the present one, the overcrowding can be borne only with patience; but for the unhygienic conditions there is absolutely no excuse...
...proposed to build a private dormitory for Harvard Medical School students and teachers on a site adjacent to the School buildings, to be managed on a plan similar in general to that of Technology Chambers in Boston. Blanks have been circulated asking for information as to what price students would be willing to pay for rooms, whether they would prefer to room alone or with a roommate...
...part of President Eliot's last annual report, just published in the Graduates' Magazine, there is a paragraph which it seems to me deserves consideration from a somewhat different standpoint. Speaking of the increase of private dormitories and the large number of students living outside of College buildings, the President says, "An experience of 270 years with dormitories has demonstrated that they are not good property for the College, it having proved impossible to earn on them so good an income as the mass of general investments of the University yields. The President and Fellows have not built a dormitory...