Word: platformization
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...were forced to abandon their old quarters and look around for larger and more suitable accommodations. They have rented Wood's gymnasium for the entire season, and are to be seen rowing there every afternoon at half past four o'clock. In order to accommodate the crew, a raised platform has been erected at the further end of the gymnasium; it is about nine feet from the floor, and about four and a half feet wide. Upon this platform eight rowing machines have been placed in position, and fastened to the walls are the weights. Although everything is very simple...
...Tuesday evening we would also say a word about the arrangements for lighting the reading desk in Sever 11. The gas jets are so arranged as to throw their full glare on the lecturer's face and eyes, so that it is painful to read or speak from the platform. It is very disagreeable, too, for the audience to be compelled to watch the speaker in his struggle with the light. A drop-light could easily be furnished. It would give relief both to the lecturer and to his hearers...
Thus arose the modern Class Day. The class of '39 enlarged the idea. The grass was cut for dancing, a platform was erected behind Stoughton, and a regular band of stringed instruments engaged. In consequence of the new arrangement, the custom of giving "spreads" originated, and the writer has before him a note, yellow with age, dated 1839, which runs as follows...
...course of lectures announced in the last University Calendar. It is hard to conceive of subjects that would appeal to the interest of college men more than the professions, law, ministry, medicine, journalism, teaching. Let us hope that every one of these professions is to be discussed from the platform in Sever 11 by as able men as the Rev. Phillips Brooks and the Hon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who are to speak on the "Ministry" and "Law as a Profession." We predict that Sever 11 will find itself more than ever unsuited to be the place of a popular...
...question is a question of vital interest to every American citizen. It is one of the foremost issues of the day, and demands the earnest consideration of every student of political economy. It is a subject of discussion to-day throughout the country, and finds a place in the platform of every political party. Every student should interest himself in the debate, and make it the means of studying one of the most trying questions of the day. A large attendance is anticipated, and the debate promises to be one of the most interesting of the year...