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...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...
...exercises, after which the runners practise in starting in the cage. This is done under the careful instruction of Mr. Lathrop. The other men take exercise according to the kind of work each is preparing to do. Those in ending to enter running events have the use of he plank track out of doors. The present method of training will continue until work in the field can be done...
...plank walk is to be placed across Holmes field between the Carey Building and the Gymnasium...
...long board walk, extending from the gymnasium to the east corner of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, curved extensions are to be placed so that sprinters may run any distance back and forth without being compelled to stop. These curved extensions will be of board to correspond with the present plank walk. Five times down and back the walk and around the curves will make a mile-so that not only the sprinters but the long-distance men will profit by it. The course will be laid within two or three days and the cost of it will be very slight...
...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...