Word: feet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...theatre is excellently appointed in every way. The auditorium will seat comfortably three hundred and fifty people, and the stage is large enough to put on a comic opera in first class style. The proscenium arch is a large one, being 22 feet high by 26 feet wide. The stage and mechanical contrivances have been built, under the direction of Mr. E. E. Rose, by Parker and Malloney of the Hollis Street Theatre. Every detail in modern stage construction has been carefully attended...
...built by W. H. Davy will be ready by March 17, when the contract calls for it. The barge is an eight oared boat, modelled from the '98 barge, excepting that it is 3-4 of an inch less in depth and is side-decked. She measures exactly 53 feet...
...whole subject of orators and oratory contains much of great importance to you all. As future voters of this country you should have interest in oratory. To be able to stand on your feet and hold your own, to object to a wrong, to advance a right; all these you must do. The great men whom I have known exerted an influence and you are now to succeed them. That generation has passed off the stage. You must take their place...
...showed up best, winning the high jump at 5 ft. 11 1-2 on the first try at that height, and taking second place in the hurdle race. This is the first season that he has tried high jumping and with practice he should do better than six feet, out doors. E. H. Clarke L. S. won the hurdle race from a large field, while Gould 1900 and Roche '99 took first and second respectively in the thirty yards dash. R. H. Morrison '99, with 9 inches, won the pole vault at 9 ft. 8 in. actual...
...Senior class decided by a large majority, at its meeting last evening, to keep the old Tree. The exercises around it will be modified, however. The flowers will be placed around the Tree extending from five to eight feet from the ground and into them the '97 emblem will be woven. The men will wear ordinary clothes, probably a uniform costume to be recommended by the Class Day Committee, and the scrimmage will not be rough. The seats will be limited to about 3400. Five schemes were proposed, the first of which was adopted. Two of the others were those...