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...available, replaces the original Hemenway, a gift of Augustus Hemenway '79 and built in 1879, when it was considered the finest athletic building in the world. After serving a useful purpose in undergraduate life for fifty years, the old gym gave way to the Indoor Athletic Building. When the site of the old Hemenway was taken for the Littauer Center, plans were made for a new and up-to-date building...
...promoter who was demoted to chairman of the Fair corporation board to make way for President Whalen. Present was a tall, shy, greying civil engineer named Joseph F. Shadgen. By proxy Mr. McAneny had to admit that Engineer Shadgen was really the man who "originated" the Fair on its site in the Flushing, L. I. salt marshes. He it was who, after nine months of study, first went to Mr. McAneny through Edward F. ("Eddy") Roosevelt (a distant, cosmopolite cousin) with plans for reclaiming the land, pumping up new land, dredging channels, etc. etc. When more prominent persons became interested...
Cranmore Mountain, about half a mile from Eastern Slope Inn at North Conway, New Hampshire, is the site of a unique experiment in ski tramways. Since last spring men have been clearing a 3,000 foot slope which has a vertical rise of 658 feet. The tramway is known as the "Skimobile," and consists of 60 individual streamlined cars with pneumatic tires that are clamped at uniform intervals to a steel cable running under a wooden platform. There are several disembarking stations on the way to the summit, serving shorter runs...
...more graceful and attractive than other trees, but because they can best withstand the conditions of city life. Undergraduates of Civil War days will remember the grove of pines sheltering "Universities Minor" at the rear of University Hall. Up to this fall there were two pines standing near the site of the original grove; the hurricane claimed one, so that now there is only one pine, one evergreen, in the entire Yard...
Trustee Morgan and his colleagues have been more conspicuously successful in their financial management of Cooper Union than it has been as an educational institution. The institution's main income comes from the site of the Chrysler Building in Manhattan, donated to the school by the Coopers. Recently Cooper Union won a suit against New York City for tax exemption on the site and building, acquired $2,500,000 in cash (back taxes it had paid) and more than $400,000 a year in additional income...