Word: high
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first time. The H. A. A. did not send down any representatives. However, two men, Stead, '91, and Lee, '91, went down on their own account, but failed to win. Yale sent quite a number of entries, but all failed to win excepting Shearman, who won the high jump at 5 ft. 9 in. with 1 in. handicap. Only one record was broken. George R. Gray, N. Y. A. C., threw the 24b.- shot 33 ft., 3 in., breaking the record by 8 inches. The lacrosse game between the Staten Island Athletic Club and Rutgers College consisted of two halves...
...west, thereby offering advantages which the architect has not failed to make use of. Thus the reading-room, which is entered from the grounds on the east side, is on a level with the fourth floor of the west stack-room, which has seven stacks each seven feet high; the delivery desk being then at the vertical middle of the stack. The stack is practically one of four stories...
...reading-room for periodicals is next to the general reading-room; it is fifty-five feet by twenty-one, and has the same light advantages as the larger reading-room. Beneath the high side windows are book-cases with a capacity of six thousand seven hundred and fifty volumes...
Directly over the cataloguing room is the President White Historical Library room, sixty-six feet by twenty-seven; the room itself is two stories high and has a book capacity of forty thousand volumes. Adjoining the White Library room on the two stories are four large seminary rooms, and these, together with the seminary rooms in the basement below the cataloguing room, make the total number of seminary rooms seven, with an average size of twenty by thirty feet...
Beneath the general reading-room is a large lecture room with nine hundred seats, and adjoining it is another large room lighted on two sides by high windows...