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...largest in the country. The Columbia gymnasium is equipped with a ten lap indoor track and in the basement has scores of private shower baths. A swimming tank finished in marble is also in the basement. This tank is 100 feet in length and at its widest point is 50 feet. The floor is so made that from or steel nails, are done away with wooden pegs being used instead. Andover Academy has a larger gymnasium than our own. The time has come I belive, when Harvard herself should take in this matter a step consistent with her general progress...
...chief aim of the work in the University proper is the widest possible development of student interests in moral and religious ideas. This year there will be an autumn training conference of one hundred student leaders, presided over by Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, and addressed by undergraduates and alumni. There will also be seven courses in devotional Biblical study. In connection with this, 5,000 daily Bible readings will be sent to all members of the University. Regular religious meetings--at which all Harvard men will be welcomed--will be held at stated times and will be addressed by prominent...
...either side in the future, will serve to reconcile the building still further to its position. The court in front is designed as a small, quiet garden to be laid out with vines and formal planting toward the street, and a stone seat against the wall at the widest part...
...gymnasium will be, like the pool, in the shape of a half moon. Over its widest part it will be 170 feet, and in it every conceivable apparatus for physical development will be made use of. Overlooking the floor of the gymnasium will be a great balcony, Suspended from the ceiling, where it runs over the gymnasium and circling the entire interior of the building, is to be built a running track 12 feet wide and nine laps to the mile. In the southern portion of the building will be athletic rooms, boxing rooms, fencing rooms and directors' appartments...
...contribution in the February Atlantic which will attract perhaps the widest attention is an able paper entitled The Presidency and Mr. Reed. It is a thoughtful presentation of the requirements of the presidential office and a discussion of Mr. Reed's fitness for it. It is the first of a promised series upon the issues and some of the personalities of the forthcoming campaign...