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...which are arranged in the same manner as those in the Stadium. Five thousand people can be accommodated at athletic games or other events which require the use of the rink or track, and eighty-five hundred can attend political meetings or boxing matches. The running track of standard width measures ten laps to the mile; the rink is 220 feet long and 90 feet wide...
Besides many valuable additions which have recently been made to the Fogg Art Museum collection recently the exhibition rooms themselves have been altered to provide for a more balanced and harmonious arrangement of the canvasses. By erecting two partitions, extending almost the width of the room, the long, flat wall space upon which the full effect of any single canvass was lost, has been broken up. The partitions have also made it practicable to bring together different schools and types of paintings as in the rooms of a larger gallery...
...order to put a premium on scoring by straight football, rather than by dropkicks or otherwise, it was advocated that the distance between the goal posts should be narrowed from 18 feet six inches to 14 feet. The 14 feet was not set as a definite width, but merely suggested as a tentative distance...
...visiting Institute have been invited to luncheon at the Colonial Club, previous to the afternoon session which is planned for 2.30 o'clock. At this meeting Mr. B. A. Haldeman of Harrisburg, Pa., city planning consultant for the state of Pennsylvania, will read a paper on "Streets: Their Classification, Width, and Subdivisions," and will be succeeded by Mr. Frederic Law Olmsted, of Brookline, with a discussion on "Fundamental Considerations of City Planning...
...been profitable for manufacturers of typewriters to prepare type as carefully as in printing, but this new demand for accurate typewriters will result in the necessary improvement. As for the uneveness of typewritten manuscript, due to the uniform space allowed for each letter regardless of its width, there are at present patents in Washington for differential feed typewriters--that is, typewriters which allow a different space for each width of letter. For example, an 'i' or an 'I' is allowed five units of space, while a 'w' or an 'm' is given eighteen units. As in the case of improved...