Word: used
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Athletic Committee will be glad to receive suggestions from the students of the University looking towards a greater use of the Locker Building on Soldiers Field. At present, the upper half is not much used even during the football season and the whole building is insufficiently heated for cold weather. It is proposed to take the steam heat for the baseball cage from a new boiler placed in the Locker Building, at the same time to increase materially the heating system of the latter. The lower part of the building can be rearranged and the upper part fitted...
...best equipped in the world. This tank is semi-circular in form, with a diameter of 100 feet and a depth of from five to ten feet. Electric lights, protected by plate glass and placed on the bottom will illuminate the water in the tank. The crew will use this tank for indoor practice...
...happened that the candidates for the committees have as a rule fallen into the exact places for which they were "slated." Furthermore, it seems desirable to prevent successive nominations of a man for committee places, because that practice has in the past been more subject to abuse than use. It has frequently happened just as it happened last year, that an absent man has been nominated facetiously by men who did not intend to support him,- being already pledged to another candidate,- but who simply utilized the absentee to divide the unpledged vote of an opponent dangerous to the candidate...
...therefore, decided to aid in taking a census of sailors. Every vessel which comes to the wharf is boarded and, in conversation with the sailors, as much as possible is ascertained of their early life, wages, method of hiring, taste, means of improvement, etc. These are tabulated for future use. At the same time is extended an invitation to visit the reading room. A savings bank branch has been established this year in the room and is in charge of the manager who goes over every day to receive deposits. Once a month an entertainment is given by students...
...Persons wishing to copy any engraving may obtain permission to do so on application to the director, who will cause the engraving, while thus in use, to be kept under glass...