Word: roof
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will occupy the rest of the basement. On the first floor will be the large vestibule, trophy room, rooms fitted with shower baths, and a massage room. The main gymnasium room will be on the second floor, and the running track will be suspended between this floor and the roof. The roof will be mainly of glass with trap ventilators...
...work on the Princeton cage has advanced considerably during the mild weather of the last few days and the walls are now finished. The contract for the roof specifies the 25th of February for its completion. There has been a considerable delay in procuring material, but the entire building will probably be finished within the prescribed time as the roof is to be begun immediately...
...occupancy and by the end of the week the work on the rowing tank will have been completed. The boat has been placed in its position in the center of the tank and the oars are being fitted in their positions. Over the ball cage half of the roof is of glass and the glaziers are at present fitting the last panes. Much of the rubbish which partly fills the cage will be removed within a day or two, and by the middle of next week the crew and the nine will commence training in their new quarters...
...floor which is reached by a broad stairway commencing near the entrance contains lockers, a director's room and quarters for the crew, nine and eleven. The gymnasium hall occupies the top floor; this contains over one thousand square feet of floor space and is lighted directly from the roof which is made almost entirely of glass. The hall is be equipped with the most approved gymnastic apparatus of every description. Also a running track of unusual width will encircle the hall...
...that plan some seventeen hundred dollars was raised among the undergraduates. Later on the plan was changed, and it was thought best, instead of a wooden building to put up a substantial one of brick. This brick building is necessarily more expensive, so that before any contract for a roof can be entered into more money must be had from the college, in fact it will be necessary to raise an additional sum of about eight hundred dollars. If this sum can be raised promptly it is probable that the cage will be ready for occupancy in about a month...