Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...steel seats, and it has been suggested that the classes as units contribute these by sections, each section to be designated by the number of the class which gave it. The total cost of replacing all the old wooden seats by steel ones is estimated at $22,000, each section costing $500. The idea is to make an appeal to the classes having dinners the night before Commencement day. As there are some fifteen of these each year, the whole amount could be raised by this method in three years, and the "class' sections would be rallying points for graduates...
...peculiar fact was noted in connection with the steel grand stand lately erected on Holmes Field. This mass of magnetic material has caused variable disturbances in the magnetometer records of the "horizontal intensity" component of the earth's magnetism. Although this has in some ways greatly inconvenienced the original investigations which are constantly being made by the director and his staff, this difficulty will be obviated next year by the removal of the grand stands to Soldiers Field...
...force of men, under the direction of Mr. H. L. Jones, of the New Jersey Steel and Iron Company, began the erection of the new steel seats on Holmes Field yesterday...
...contract for the first section of seats on Holmes Field has been given to the New Jersey Steel and Iron Co. of Trenton, N. J.; that for the rest has not yet been given out, as the designs are not quite completed...
...front of these seats will be all wood work, looking like ordinary stands; but the supports and frame work will be entirely of steel. A new feature is the width of the aisles, that being three feet, thus allowing two persons to walk abreast with ease...