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...Student describes the proposed new gymnasium at Amherst as follows: "It is to be fitted up with apparatus very much after the style of that in the gym recently built at Harvard. The plans for the building are to have one story and a large basement. The first floor is to be a room 100 feet by 70 feet, with a circular gallery at one end, besides a space for the regular marching and dumb bell exercises. It is to have all the modern appliances for gymnastics and physical exercise. The basement is to contain regular bath rooms, a spray...
...training for the class tug-of-war teams goes on bravely every afternoon in the basement of the gymnasium, in the presence of admiring spectators. The "scratch" teams seem to gain the advantage about as often as the regular teams...
Carpenters were at work yesterday in the library basement, putting in new shelving. Newspapers and other loose miscellancous matter will be stored here...
...basement of the gymnasium is a repository for all small articles which have been found from time to time. There has already accumulated a curious collection of gymnastic impedimenta, from which one could easily select a complete gymnastic outfit...
Memorial Hall is admirably arranged for a dining hall in all respects save one. It has no lavatory. We suggest that a lavatory be fitted up either in the small room, opposite the auditor's office, and formerly used by the association, or in some part of the basement. The convenience of such an arrangement would be greatly appreciated by those men who are obliged to go to lunch directly from recitations, and who have no conveniences for their toilet outside of their own rooms...