Word: feet
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...FINISH.A tape held by the judges shall be stretched across the track at the finish four feet above the ground. This tape must be breasted...
...College. Or, if the College is too poor to go to this expense, I would respectfully suggest that the Faculty furnish conveyances to and fro. The cost need not be large, and the benefit conferred would be great, especially on a rainy day, or when the snow is several feet deep. For the sake of myself and the others who take the course, I hope the Faculty will attend to this matter...
...annoyance it gives to those members of the class who wish to get some benefit out of what is said, ought to deserve some consideration. Good will and good feeling demand that. We would beg, therefore, those who show their appreciation of the Lecture by the exercise of their feet and not of their brains, to give a little better chance to those who wish - foolishly perhaps - to exercise their brains and not their feet...
...basement will probably be the most attractive part of the building. Here there are nine bowling-alleys in a room 83 by 84 feet. At the northern end space has been set apart, 83 by 30 feet, for ball practice, and coal-bins, store-rooms, water-closets, and a boiler-room fill the rest of the basement. A large bow-window projects from the western side of the gymnasium, and is designated as the "Armory." It is to be hoped that the Pea-body rifles of the H. R. C. will be safe in this armory from the raids...
...building will cover 14,000 feet, and will be built at a cost of not less than $100,000. It will be faced with yellow brick, and the "colonial" style of architecture will be followed. Further details can be obtained from the plans, which we at last present to our readers after having repeatedly disappointed them...