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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will supply the apparatus, and the commissioners have left the selection of it as well as the superintendence of its erection to him. The machines have been selected with a wise consideration for the class of patronage which an open-air gymnasium will receive. The list includes chest weights, high and low pulleys, balance swings, breast bars, set, standing and double swings, plain ropes, rope ladders, crossrope ladder, rings, single trapeze, long plain ropes, standing and inclined ladders, climbing, slanting, and standing poles, giant stride, quoits, vaulting poles, hammers, shots and heavy weights for "throwing" and "putting." The idea...
...live all over the country-and are intended to be what their name indicates-a sort of council to keep an eye on the doings of the faculty and students. They are, for the most part, men who live in or near Cambridge, and are generally men of high standing in their own callings, and an excellent body of advisers on any subject to which they may give their full attention...
From an architectural stand point the new dormitory will equal all the other dormitories. It will be five stories high and will be built partly of gray stone, partly of Tiffany brick. Special care has been taken to have the rooms well lighted and well ventilated, and the windows will all be large and arched...
...wrestling (140 1bs.), feather-weight wrestling (125 1bs). At the second meeting, March 23, the events are as follows: Feather-weight sparring (125 1bs.), bantam-weight sparring (115 1bs.), flying rings, horizontal bar, broad-sword, fencing, and final tug-of-war. At the third meeting, March 30-Polevault, running high jump, standing high jump, running high kick, rope-climbing, parallel bars, two-handed fence-vault, and tug-of-war limit (600 1bs.), will be contested...
Color-Dr. Whiting, February 28; Sound-Dr. Whiting; Prime Movers-Professor Hall; Prime Movers-Professor Hall; Electric Lighting Professor Hall; Electricity of High Tension-Professor B. O. Peirce; Steady Currents of Electricity-Professor B. O. Peirce; Cable Telegraphy--Professor B. O. Peirce; Electromagnetic Induction and Telephony-Professor Trowbridge; Light-Professor Trowbridge; Conservation of Energy-Professor Trowbridge; Physical Measurements-Dr. Sheldon...