Word: feet
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Krogness, Jr., '21 R. W. Harwood '20 were the tow University ex-service men to score in the first day of the American Legion Athletic Carnival here on Braves Field yesterday. Krogness won third place in the running broad jump with a jump of 21 feet 1 1-2 inches, while Harwood earned second place in the pole-vault with a height of 12 feet...
...Daly '93, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, returned to the University last Sunday from a successful field trip to the Samoan Islands, Several important discoveries were made, including the finding of positive proof than within geologically recent time the surface of the ocean has sunk approximately twenty feet. This has long been suspected by geologists but definite confirmation of the theory has been lacking until this discovery...
...front of the Library is one of a type and calibre that proved themselves very efficient in the recent war. Throwing a projectile weighing around ninety-five pounds at a maximum muzzle velocity of twenty-three hundred and eighty feet per second it attains a maximum range of about seventeen thousand yards. It was the mainstay of the American and French armies in medium field rifles, and improvements in gun and projectile were being rapidly made when the armistices was signed...
...addition to the present accommodations listed above a temporary Freshman Athletic Building is being constructed on Holyoke street, opposite Standish Hall, to be ready for occupancy about the middle of November. It will contain a large room, 46 by 80 feet, for handball, basketball, and other indoor sports. There will be two smaller rooms, each 20 by 30 feet, which will be equipped for fencing, boxing, and wrestling. Under these rooms, artillery equipment is to be stored. Shower baths, lockers, and an office complete the interior of the building...
...will contain a large room to be used for indoor handball, basketball, and other indoor games requiring considerable space. The room will be 46 by 80 feet, and the two other rooms will measure each 20 by 30 feet. The latter are to be equipped for fencing, boxing and wrestling, where classes of Freshmen may be instructed. Under these rooms artillery equipment is to be stored. Shower baths, lockers, and an office will complete the interior of the building...