Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once: 1 morris chair, 1 lamp with metal stand (2 bulbs), 2 straight back chairs, 1 large red and black rug, 3 small rugs. The following pieces of furniture have not been called for at the Union: 2 wicker chairs, 2 straight back chairs, 1 desk chair, 1 wooden arm chair, 1 bench, 1 leather cushion, 1 vase, 1 green rug, 1 brass ash stand, 1 large rug, 1 red pillow with Harvard Seal, 1 table cover, 3 pillows. If these things are not called for by March 15, they will be given in exchange to men who have lost...
Weak floors, plaster walls, and wooden stairways are not conducive to the safety of the hundreds who make use of these recitations halls each day. Nor does the absence of adequate fire-escapes improve conditions. True, Sever boasts a well hidden system of chain ladders as antiquated as they are inefficient, and Harvard has its vines and roof-balcony; but the only effective work which these appurtenances can accomplish is to cause the imprisoned undergraduate to spend valuable lecture hours in wondering whether it would be better in case of fire, to trust to the firemen or slide down...
...proposed stadium will seat five thousand and wooden stands can be erected providing for excess crowds. At the entrance to the field a memorial arch will be built, commemorating the ninety Dartmouth men killed...
...second announcement from the same source stated that locker facilities at the Big Tree Pool, which have been notoriously poor, have been somewhat improved by the erection of a wooden floor constructed near the front of the building...
Then again you have other conditions to meet. They bear upon the difference between the college games and professional in regard to baskets. All college games are played with wooden back boards behind the baskets, whereas one professional league would have glass backs located twelve inches behind the basket while in the college games wooden boards are only six inches behind the basket. Such differences should be eradicated in order to bring about a more uniform standard of play...