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...committee meetings which will be held here. On the walls at the height of the mouldings are suspended the championship banners which have come to Yale in the various branches of athletics. The finish of the room corresponds to that in the hallway, the marble floor, the walls and woodwork being white. The baseballs are painted over in red, orange and black, white and blue. Those painted in orange and black were used in the Princeton games, the red ones in Harvard games. All have on them the date, score, etc. The footballs and the track trophies will be placed...
...place, and the main stair-case of marble is almost finished. A floor has been laid in the basement, and the baths have been put up, and separated by marble slabs. The elevator shaft has been completed, but, except in the gymnasium proper, there remains a great deal of woodwork to be done. The work of the stonecutters and plumbers is nearly finished, so that the carpenters will soon be able to proceed more rapidly. Around the outside of the building a walk has been constructed, and the ground behind the building is to be graded off, in view...
...finish of the two principal stories is to be of painted plaster. The woodwork is reduced to practical minimum, and brick walls and fire stops prevent the chances of a fire spreading. The outside walls are hollow, to assure dryness...
...increasing number of students. If possible, the lockers and bathing rooms will all be transferred to the new edifice, and efforts will be made to raise money enough for a swimming bath. The faculty fully realize that the bathing facilities are entirely inadequate, and, in any case, all the woodwork of the bath-rooms will be torn out next summer and the whole system will be radically changed, as the construction was faulty from the beginning. The pipe from the street is altogether too small, and the tank often runs dry, to the great annoyance of those...
...entering the main hall the first thing which strikes the observer is the substantial appearance of evrything about him. Quite in keeping with the solid exterior is the heavy woodwork, iron s aircases and tiled floors, all giving the impression that the building was made to last through many years of hard usage. Though substantial and solid in appearance, the building, neither without nor within, is unsightly, the decoration and finish in the quiet style and colors now prevalent satisfying even the eye of the artist. The first specific thing which attracts attention is an inscription on the wall above...