Word: plank
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...board running track for winter training has just been put down and in a few days will be connected with the back door of the Gymnasium by a plank walk. Owing to the building of the hand-ball courts it was impossible to put the track behind the Gymnasium where it was last year so it has been laid just back of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. The length of the track is exactly one-eight of a mile instead of being seven yards short of one-seventh, the length of the old track...
...eight of these courts, four on each side of the asphalt yard. In all probability two of them will be specially reserved for the use of the 'Varsity baseball pitchers, while the other six will be public. The concrete flooring of the yard will be retained. A high plank wall has nearly been finished on the west side of the yard and another is to be erected on the east side...
...money, contrary to the declaration of the Act of 1890. (b) All debts would be scaled down one-half. B. The attack on Civil Service Reform is an attack on good government. (1) The spoils system has always menat, and means now, corrupt administration of public affairs. C. The plank in regard to Federal Relations is an attack upon the U. S. Gov't and subversive of the Constitution. (Chicago Platform.) (1) It destroys the Federal equilibrium established by the Constitution. (a) It means that the U. S. Gov't can exist in efficiency only by the consent...
...Harvard Civil Service Reform Club will be held in Upper Mass. The business before the club is the election of officers and the discussion of campaign work. The club wishes to co-operate with the other political clubs in the campaign against Bryan. The Chicago platform contains a plank aimed directly against civil service reform, and the election of Bryan would be as disastrous to an honest administration of public office as to the honesty of our national currency. All civil service reformers must realize that the present campaign is a crisis in the movement, and that if all that...
...changes which have been made in the Carey Building will be completed today. The tank has been covered with plank floor, and will not be used this year. The rowing machines have been removed from the Gymnasium and put in place in the old tank room. Here the different crews will practice during the winter, and until the men go to the river in the spring...