Word: pools
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...change was made yesterday in the arrangement of the pool and billiard rooms at the Union. The western end of the room in the basement, containing four pool and five billiard tables, has been assigned to the Freshmen. The eastern end of this room will contain the upperclass billiard tables and the upperclass pool tables will be placed in the up-stairs room which was formerly used by Freshmen...
...interesting. Some of the best pictures of the exhibition are shown by W. Babcock Swift '01, but were not entered in the competition. Of these, number 134, an enlargement entitled "In green pastures and by the still waters," is an English scene, showing two calves drinking from a pool beneath a spreading tree. A twilight effect pervades the picture. "The Frog Pond," 139, is another English scene, of unusual merit. "A Country Bridge," 138, "The Trout Brook," 142, and a portrait of John the Orangeman, 140, are worthy of special notice...
...York, over the Morris Park steeple-chase course. Yale, Princeton, Cornell and Columbia will compete. Terms of ten men have been entered, of whom six will run. The length of the course will be six and two-third miles, and will include forty obstacles, consisting of the famous Liver-pool jump, hedges, water jump, and ditches...
Trusts, so called, vary much in form. The first kind is the "pool" of which some are now in operation. In the old Trust form, of which the Standard Oil Company is a type, a small board of trustees have the business of managing all the different companies, but dividends are paid out on combined profits. Much anti-trust legislation, however, led to the formation of the typical form of trust--the single corporation. The form of Trust which is now in the ascendant is modelled much after the old Trust. A central company is organized...
...good swimming pool, if included in the original plans of the building, could probably be put in for $3,000. If it should be impossible to supply it with city water, which we are told was what prevented a pool being placed in the Gymnasium, then there is all the more reason for having an artesian well with a good supply of good water for the use of the Union. By this again two objects would be attained, namely, furnishing the Union with water which every one would be willing to use, and obviating the necessity of paying a large...