Word: feet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plans for the new Dartmouth gymnasium have been drawn up. The dimensions are to be one hundred by fifty feet, with a wing for special apparatus. There will be a second story containing a theatre seating five hundred. - Yale News...
There is in California a large tree named "Harvard." An admirer of Yale seeing this thought Yale should be represented, and a tree fifteen feet in diameter and two hundred and eighty feet high was named "Yale" at her request...
Although the little hall used for the occasion, somewhat sarcastically called the "Theatre Royal," has a stage only eighteen feet square, and although the audience could not but feel oppressed in the extremely small auditorium, yet the presentation proved very successful and impressive. In front of the small stage and three feet lower down, was a space for the evolutions of the chorus, and still further towards the audience sat the band. The tragedy was shortened, being divided into a prologue and three acts, for each of which there was a separate scene. On the stage were represented in turn...
...writer remembers, one evening several years ago, before he entered Harvard, riding from Boston to Cambridge in company with a couple of Harvard students. One of these students who was highly exhilarated periodically, solaced himself by grasping the supporting straps and swinging his feet up against the roof of the car. This simple amusement pleased us all, but one old lady remarked that she guessed that no young man in such a state could be very moral. Whether any exact definition of morality could be found in Harvard undergraduate ethics is a matter of grave doubt. Some think that morality...
...University of Pennsylvania has rented the old depot of the Pennsylvania railroad for base-ball practice. The depot is a square, long, and 100 feet wide...