Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PLANS of the new Gymnasium are now for sale at Sever...
...broad double flight of stone steps. Folding-doors admit the visitor to an entrance-hall which opens on the left to the hall, and on the right to the office, where the Curator can see every one that goes out or in. The main hall of the gymnasium is 119 feet long at its greatest length, and 81 feet at its greatest width. It is as long as the Memorial Dining-Hall, and considerably wider. On the right and left sides of this mammoth gymnasium, at a distance of 18 feet from the walls, are placed twelve columns that support...
...eastern side of the building, i e. on the side nearest the Scientific School, are the bathing and dressing rooms. A dressing-room fitted with lockers, and measuring 16 by 93 feet, extends from the office door to the northern wall of the building. This part of the gymnasium has one small and two large wings. The northeastern and southeastern wings (each 20 by 24 feet) are provided with stationary wash-bowls and bath-tubs, and have brick floors and glazed-brick walls; thus, the greatest durability and the greatest cleanliness are at once obtained. The small wing, between...
There are two stairways that lead to the second floor, one in the entrance-hall and one in the gymnasium proper. A track 5 feet wide, and with a circuit of about 250 feet, occupies the gallery. The rest of the floor is taken up with a meeting-room, 26 by 70 feet, a boxing and fencing room of the same dimensions, a janitor's room, store-room, and a gymnasium, 18 by 78 feet, for hydraulic rowing-weights...
...room 83 by 84 feet. At the northern end space has been set apart, 83 by 30 feet, for ball practice, and coal-bins, store-rooms, water-closets, and a boiler-room fill the rest of the basement. A large bow-window projects from the western side of the gymnasium, and is designated as the "Armory." It is to be hoped that the Pea-body rifles of the H. R. C. will be safe in this armory from the raids of socialists and communists...