Word: feet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...exhibit of the Institute of Technology at the World's Fair will be in a space of twelve hundred square feet adjoining the large space allotted Harvard. Photographs of the laboratories, instruments, machines and buildings will be sent, together with samples of work done by the students and theses of the graduating class last year. Some competent person will be in charge of the exhibit and a register will probably be provided for the students who visit Chicago during the summer...
...Association. The events open to the New England Association will be from the scratch. They will be as follows; 75 yards dash, one mile walk, running high jump, 600 yards run, 1,000 yards run, one mile run, pole vault, 70 yards hurdle (5 flights of 3 1-2 feet each). In addition there will be a class team race for Technology only, and a half-mile run in heavy marching order, open to all military organizations in New England. First, second, and third prizes will be given. The entries close on March...
According to these preliminary plans, the building will consist of a rectangular reading room, 100x70 feet, which will seat comfortably 400 persons at one time. About the walls of this room will be placed, in suitable cases, the reference books which the different alcoves now hold...
projecting from three sides of this central room will be a series of small rooms to be used as consulting places for the instructors of the different departments. This series of outlying rooms will be entirely upon the ground floor, a sloping roof, about 15 feet above, forming the ceiling. Above this roof will be placed the large windows, thus making a kind of clerestory, and affording an abundance of light...
...whole building will cover a space of about 20,000 square feet. It will be constructed of light colored brick, and its general external appearance will be that of a plain, light and very commodious building...