Word: feet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cinder path will be built between New Haven and New York for the use of wheelmen. The path will be four feet wide and will run beside the roadway...
...postponed athletic meeting at Yale University, Woodruff, '89, won shot and hammer contests; distances, 34 feet 5 inches and 78 feet...
...coming summer. The changes are to be made under the direction of Charles C. Haight, a New York architect. The plans include an extension of the School of Mines building so that it will be four stories high with a basement. A tower will occupy the space of 45x60 feet on the corner of Fourth avenue and 49th street. A new lecture hall 40x60 feet is to be built on the site at present occupied by the president's house. It is not yet fully decided whether the new lecture hall shall be constructed separately or shall be made into...
...Scientific School appeared last Saturday. The following facts are gathered from its pages. Of the ninety-three men who entered the freshman class seventy-four graduated. The average age of the men in the class is twenty-one years, three months and eleven days. The average height is five feet, nine and one-seventh inches, and the weight one hundred and fifty and one-half pounds. The average expenditure per year for each man has been $970. There are forty-two members in the class. Half the class smoke, thirty-four drink and all but one play cards...
...gambrel roof, large chimneys and deep fire-places, and stands today in nearly the same conditin as when constructed. The framing is of oak and the heavy beams project into the rooms nearly three inches. The rooms are low studded and are surrounded by an oak wainscotting three feet high. The hallway is large and square and out of it leads an old fashioned winding stairway, extending to the attic...