Word: plank
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rowing. The floor of the tank will be built of bricks laid in cement on sand and covered with Portland cement. It will be built as long as possible, but will be less than twenty-five feet in width. The tank will then be divided into halves by a plank or brick partition eighteen inches high, and above which the boat will float. In the centre of each half, but within the reach of the oars, will be another partition, extending only part way to the ends, which will cause the current to flow in the form of an ellipse...
Would it be ungrateful for me, after the yard authorities' kind compliance with the wishes of the college last year, to suggest that they extend their beneficence to the further laying of plank walks from the Chapel to the Library and from the front of University to Holworthy? Day before yesterday water had collected in the path to the Library to an average depth of not less than three nor more than six inches. As to the flagging in front of Thayer, we all know that it was submerged during every storm of last year, while there has been...
...found to be totally inadequate for the needs of the crowd coming out see the championship football games, and many and loud were the complaints on that score. The spectators will now have every opportunity of viewing a game with comfort, untormented by the constant fear of some rotten plank giving way under foot. We understand that the north side of the field will be improved in the same way, as the seats there are in an extremely dilapidated condition...
Since the yard authorities complied with the oft-expressed desire of the CRIMSON and furnished us with plank walks, a time worn subject for articles of all kinds has been removed. The authorities have used praiseworthy care in keeping the walks in the yard free from snow this winter. There are, however, a few places where especial care should be taken, and which seem to have been neglected. These are the steps of the various dormitories, and more especially Weld and Thayer. Covered with ice as they are at present, with but a slight covering of ashes, which tend merely...
...faculty at Yale have followed the worthy example of our corporation and are going to have plank walks in the campus...