Word: feet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Atlanta, Georgia, there is now being held a "Cotton States and International Exposition," which will be continued for some three months. Harvard early applied for and received an assignment of about 1,000 square feet of floor space in the gallery of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts building for an exhibit. The space at disposal is only one fifth of what Harvard had at the World's Fair and it has been found necessary to limit the exhibit almost entirely to the wall material prepared for Chicago. In spite of this restriction, the exhibit, as just...
...space of 48x20 feet, six screens have been set up and covered with photographs, and charts illustrating the growth and present condition of different departments of the University. The Law, Medical, and other professional schools are treated in this fashion, as well as the College. There is a very interesting set of photographs of the University Museum, and another illustrative of Dr. Sargent's experiments in physical measurement. That part of the exhibit based on the work at the Astronomical Observatory is particularly interesting and effective...
...frontage of the building is 72 and its depth 129 feet. The front part contains the lecture and smaller laboratory rooms, while the rear contains the large laboratories, one on each of the three main floors. The basement is used also for experiments, as well as a storeroom, and the upper story is fitted up as a dormitory for the instructors and their assistants. The largest laboratory, and that for the freshmen, is on the third floor and accommodates eighty-eight. There are laboratory accommodations for as many more, and two rooms have been reserved for libraries of a technical...
...representative for the double event, is short and heavy, not unlike Shaw of the London team, in build, and is speedy for the first five hurdles, but does not seem capable of holding the burst to the finish. With him will be W. M. Fletcher, who stands over six feet, and is broad-shouldered rather than heavy. He is slower than Pilkigton and they bear about the same speed relation as do Cady and Hatch, who will be offered as their opponents by Yale. Cady, however, has been doing splendid work over the high sticks in practice...
...heaviest new man is Percy M. Jaffray, who has been playing since Wednesday. He weighs 220 pounds and is six feet five inches tall. The coaches have been working hard with him and although he is somewhat awkward, yet he promises to make a good...