Word: feets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Princeton base ball candidates went to training table yesterday. This table is in the new athletic club house, just completed, which is the gift of Professor Osborn. The entrance opens into a large hall to be used as a trophy room, wainscotted to a height of 6 1-2 feet with oak panels. The dining rooms, which extend the width of the building, open from the trophy rooms by arch doorways. The one on the right, intended for the use of the 'varsity, contains a tablet bearing the inscription: "1891," Presented to Princeton University by Henry F. Osborn, class...
...principal occupation of the inhabitants of this island. Besides the cocoanut, cabbage and pinnate palms, the forests contain a curious growth called rain trees which drip with moisture. Vines called runners or climbers, covered with blossoms cling about the palms to a height of fifty feet. Next to the palm, the bamboo is the most interesting to the botanists. This species grows luxuriantly in Ceylon...
...Farquhar '93 and C. B. Earle '94 were the only entries in the tumbling. It was a very close decision which the judges rendered in favor of Farquhar. He was lighter on his feet than Earle and more graceful. Earle, on the other hand, had a greater variety of movements. Mr. Bowler gave a very pretty exhibition of tumbling at the request of the committee in charge. His movements were very difficult, combining, as they did, almost every conceivable form of tumbling, but they were all executed with remarkable ease and grace...
...native of Salisbury, with funds amounting to $200,000 in addition to the sum of $150,000, the cost of the buildings, and $25,000, the cost of the surrounding land, which has an area of seventy-five acres. The school buildings will have a frontage of five hundred feet, with a large three-story structure at the centre, flanked at either end with buildings for the masters, which will connect with the central structure by covered corridors...
...last event of the meeting was the finals in the Middle Weight Sparring between J. H. Hunt '92 and J. L. Thompson '95, who drew the bye. The first round was rather evenly fought. Thompson was quick on his feet and planted several hard blows in Hunt s face. Hunt was stronger and showed more experience than his opponent, He landed oftener and followed up his blows with better judgment, and the bout was awarded...