Word: platform
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...asked if I could see the building. He answered in the affirmative, and led the way into the large hall. I looked in vain for the apparatus. The floor was carefully waxed, and around the walls were sofas and chairs. At the northern end of the hall was a platform, upon which were several music-stands. My meditations were interrupted by my guide. "This is the hall in which the students formerly exercised; but when athletics became so very unpopular, the Faculty, in response to the universal wish, converted it into a dancing-hall. We have ten electives in Dancing...
...Sophomore year he published ten volumes on Political Economy, which have now become the text-books - as we all know - of desk, pulpit, and platform...
...meeting of the Athletic Association on last Tuesday evening was one of the largest business meetings which the organization has held. All the seats and the platform in Lower Holden were filled, and the standing-room was crowded. Mr. Thayer, '78, the President of the Association, called the meeting to order, and announced as the business of the evening the election of officers for the ensuing year. The Treasurer's report, presented by Mr. Burr, '79, was first read, and showed the Association was out of debt with a balance of more than fifty dollars on hand. This...
...almost every one knows, the N. Y. and N. E. R. R. have agreed to run, on the day of the race, a train of platform cars, furnished with seats arranged in tiers, from the start to the finish. The track runs along the bank of the Thames River, and there are only two or three points in the entire distance where trees or other objects shut out a view of the course. Each car will accommodate about eighty persons. Several cars have already been engaged by gentlemen from New Haven, and we earnestly advise our enterprising men to open...
...that they will do better than the poor tubs that followed the boats at Springfield last year; and there is no doubt that they will, for as New London is a seaport town, it of course has greater facilities for getting good boats than Springfield had. A train of platform cars, with seats arranged in the form of an amphitheatre, will also keep along by the side of the boats from start to finish. Each car will hold about eighty people, and it would certainly be a good plan if arrangements could be made by which the students should have...