Word: feet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...dormitory is being built by Mr. George C. Little just back of Little's block and is expected to be finished by next fall. The building, if all the plans can be carried out, is to be the handsomest block in Cambridge. It will be five stories high, ninety feet square, with a central hall forty feet square. Besides being lighted by electricity and being well heated it will have the luxury of an elevator. All these considerations added to its central location will make it a most desirable building...
Hickok was in excellent form in the shot putting contest, and he put the shot five feet farther than the second man, Brown, Yale's second string...
...college, and all are reasonably sure of holding their positions. They are Fullback Draper, Halfback Hickey, Quarterback Street, Guard Lotz, Tackles Somoskeoy, and Bockes and End Ryan. Gillispie '89, the old Exeter Academy end, is trying for left end. He is a heavy man, very quick on his feet and a valuable addition to the team...
...their place were put iron girders supported by small iron pillars. The old windows which were very small and high up, were lengthened and broadened. This new room is ventilated by a hood running the entire length of the wall, extending down from the ceiling for two or three feet. The hood connects with a 30-inch electric fan, which is kept in motion by a one hourse power electric motor. The room, which is 66x35 ft., will be used as a laboratory for the members of Chemistry 1. It contains tables and lockers for some two hundred and thirty...
...high jumpers are T. M. Jennings and A. B. Johnston. Johnston will also attempt to throw the sixteenpound hammer. He approaches his take off at a slant, has no great amount of spring, and clears the bar all doubled up, his body bent, as if he would grasp his feet and lift himself over. He gives the impression of attempting to sit on the bar. Jennings jumps in better form, taking off usually straight ahead, although he sometimes affects the slanting run. It is probable that the high jump will go to Cambridge, as neither Thompson nor Sheldon, who will...