Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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There are two stairways that lead to the second floor, one in the entrance-hall and one in the gymnasium proper. A track 5 feet wide, and with a circuit of about 250 feet, occupies the gallery. The rest of the floor is taken up with a meeting-room, 26 by 70 feet, a boxing and fencing room of the same dimensions, a janitor's room, store-room, and a gymnasium, 18 by 78 feet, for hydraulic rowing-weights...
...Harvard and its Surroundings" bears the evidence of careful revision and judicious alteration. The heliotypes of the different buildings (numbered) are arranged in the same order as the letter-press description, and the map of the Yard is so numbered as to enable the visitor to make its circuit with the book in hand, without being confused by the mystical directions that are found usually in guide-books. A better selection of college interiors than in the last edition is noticeable in the present volume...
...disturbance in the Yard Tuesday night was caused by a band of musicians accompanied by a numerous retinue of muckers attempting out of mere bravado to make a circuit of the College buildings. They did not succeed...
...detail briefly the progress of arrangements for the coming Field Meeting of the Association. The track has been engaged for Friday, July 6, 1877, and has been thoroughly inspected by the Committee. The path, which is composed of cinder and clay, is one fifth of a mile in circuit, and excellently adapted for running and walking, and is now in perfect order for training purposes. The dressing-rooms are being provided with lockers by the New York Athletic Club, and contain every convenience for contestants. The apparatus necessary for every contest is now ready at the track. Arrangements...
...minds of others, being freed from the necessity of inventing excuses, could be turned to some profitable employment. But the great revolution which the telephone would accomplish is in the matter of summonses, which would be changed so as to read, "Mr. - is directed to complete his telephonic circuit with the Register's office on - day next...