Word: feet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...main building will be 120 feet square, giving a clear floor space of 14,400 square, feet. In this will be laid out a regular baseball diamond, exclusive of the outfield. To prevent injury from the rebounding of the balls the sides and ceilings will be hung with strong, elastic wire netting a few feet...
...reported that Koest has just received an order for a new barge from the managers of the Yale navy. The barge, which will be finished December 1, is to be built of cedar, sixty feet in length, and 25 inches in width. This will be one of the narrowest barges ever constructed, the object of which is to avoid any change of the style of rowing when the crew is transferred to the shell...
...cases were Technology's backs able to buck the center successfully, and running round the end was out of the question. The interference was a little weaker than it has been in some days. The blockers did not strike their men hard enough to throw them clear off their feet...
Perkins Hall, which is to be on the westerly side of the street, will be 286 feet long, 44 feet wide and four stories in height. The building is to be of rough brick with trimmings of Ohio lime-stone, and the architecture is practically of the colonial order, much like Hollis and Stoughton. There will be four entrances, two on the Oxford street side and two on the Jarvis field side, so that the building will eventually face on the quadrangle when the field is built upon...
...improvements have been made in the gymnasium, but Dr. Sargent has a very urgent petition for an addition, for the purpose of having new bathing accomodations. The new bath-room will be built at the rear of the basement and will be fifty feet long and about thirty feet broad. It will be used only for shower baths and will accomodate the 900 holders of lockers who now have to use the baths on the floor above...