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...tell-tale" and the hanging of the doors. The lights are being put in now and two coats of paint have already been put on. In the up-stains courts the floor has still to be laid; and the lighting, and hanging of doors must be finished. The side walls, however, have already been painted. Both sets of courts will be thoroughly ventilated, the upper ones by the windows and outlets at the top of the building. The lower courts are entirely enclosed, and must therefore be ventilated artificially. This will be done by two grated holes in the front...
...soon as the carpenters finish the new courts, they will remodel courts seven and fourteen, originally used for squash tennis, when the building was first built, and consequently oversize. The front walls will be moved forward about a foot and the real wall is to be but six and a half feet high. Formerly the space above this line was covered with chicken wire which hindered the view of spectators; and as balls rarely go higher than six feet in the court, the wire has been omitted and a series of bleacher seats erected in back. This will provide...
...Minor, will be of no avail whatsoever. And this great peninsula of Asia Minor, stretching toward Europe, which in previous times has served as a bridge for the crossing of western civilization to Asia will now, while in the hands of a powerful and fanatical Turkey, become an impenetrable wall, blocking the passage of progress and civilization to the east. Someone has said that the Turks always constitute the undertow to every tide of civilization. History has proven this, and it will be repeated if the Turks are not kept out of non-Turkish territories...
...among others such as "M. I. T.", M. A. C.", "B. U.", and "B. C.". The "University of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts" is as yet but a vague shape on the political horizon, but, before we first date our theses "1923", it may appear as the handwriting on the wall. At recent meetings, the Legislature has considered many bills for the creation of a State university, and finally a commission has been appointed "to inquire into and report upon the opportunities and provisions for technical and higher education within the Commonwealth, and the need of supplementing the same...
...screen, any number of whirling spheres, electric light bulbs, etc. At one side of the shooting gallery is a peep show which you work with a big wheel, something like one with which a boat is steered. There are an infinite number of old roulette wheels hung along each wall together with boomerangs. Boomerangs were used to hit the "African Dodger" instead of baseballs in the old days. Then there is a toy ship for the kiddies, and sometimes there are moving pictures. As you come in you sit down on a chair, and some of the chairs are made...