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...enable a larger number of men to participate in these sports. The Athletic Committee, however, " all trained athletes as well as cultured men," know full well that the great obstacle to exercise is not the " scientific accuracy which debars the general student from an enjoyable sport," but the limited area of land devoted to out-door sports. With additional land at command, class nines and elevens would have been formed long ago from policy, just as the class crews were. As a matter of fact, since the first restrictions were laid on base-ball, no larger number have played base...
...hall, actually wear their hats until they come to their tables, which sometimes are half way down the hall. This is, to say the least, discourteous. Further, it shows an unwillingness to make practice and preaching agree. All hats should be removed by those entering the hall, before the area beneath the visitors' gallery is left. The student who violates this rule may some day be embarrassed by the stamping, such as has in the past been directed toward careless visitors in the gallery...
...Haskell will lecture on "The theory of members." The subject for discussion will be: I. Curvature of the cogs of wheels. II. Problem. A circle of unknown radius has its centre on the circumference of a given circle and incloses within it a given area. Find the unknown radius...
...small. In England, Girton and Newnham and the University of London afford the means of higher education to a few hundred women only. Some other institutions are also open to women; but the whole number graduated each year is to the number which American colleges instruct yearly as the area of the British Isles to that of the United States...
...following are the dimensions of the new athletic field at Yale: Area, hillside and meadow, 8.4 acres; cricket field, 3.67; track and vicinity, 4.68; baseball field, 10; roads and cottage sites, 2.25. Total area, 29 acres. Distance from home plate to nearest obstruction on principal ball field, 420ft.; same, second field, 350ft. Cricket field, 400ft. square. Grade of ball field, 3 1-4 in. to 100ft. Length of driveway, 4,000ft. Length straightaway on running track, 372.5ft.; radius inside curve, 90ft.; width of homestretch, 20ft.; width of rest of track, 15ft.; depth of material, 15in., in six layers...