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UNIVERSITY BASE-BALL NINE PULLEY WEIGHTS.4.05 p.m. Ten entries...
...simplicity. Everything looks comfortable, and the visitor at once feels at home. There is a gymnasium for the male students, and one for the girls. No reason is given why co-education does not extend to athletics. The director of the gymnasium is the inventor of the new pulley weight which is now being introduced into our gymnasium...
...tuition fees. Investigations of fire escapes for the dormitories were consequently undertaken. For a few weeks the students were treated to a daily exhibition of some patent way of sliding from the fourth story window without damage to bone or muscle. The patent canvass bag, the self-working pulley, and several other inventions were tried, but found to be impractical. Nevertheless, it was said, the faculty would spare no efforts or money to make the life of students in the dormitories secure. After a year's deliberation, it was decided that the college would undergo the expense of putting...
Among the recent improvements that have been made by Dr. Sargent in gymnasium apparatus is a new arrangement of pulley-weights, which tends to reduce the friction to a minimum, and thereby renders work on them easier and more agreeable. This result is accomplished by substituting rolled shafting, similar to that used in mills, in place of the plain iron rods now in use in the old machines; by changing the bearings so that the weight box will run exactly parallel to the bars, and thus prevent lateral pressure, and by increasing the diameter of the pivot...
Some new tall pulley-weights are being placed in the gymnasium near the basement stairs, and chest-weights put in the places formerly occupied by them...