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Perhaps this increase is due in large measure to Professor I. N. Hollis, who succeeds Professor W. H. Burr, recently resigned to accept a position at Columbia. Professor Hollis is a man who has had wide experience in engineering lines and is an expert in his subject. He was assistant engineer in the navy department, has designed the engines of several new large vessels, and has been with the Bureau of Steam Engineering at Washington. He will have here seven courses under his direct charge, including an entirely new one in mechanical engineering. The following are some of the changes...
...which make up the main body of our college sports, namely, Track Athletics, Rowing, Football and Baseball. These subjects he has treated in a clear and easy style, aiming to give that instruction as to best methods of training teams and actual performances in the sports which his wide experience and observation fits him so well to do. These articles are interspersed with incidents and stories of great contests and at the close is an appendix giving the latest rules for the sports. The book is illustrated with many instructive cuts and diagrams.- [Walter Camp's Book of Sports...
Perkins Hall, which is to be on the westerly side of the street, will be 286 feet long, 44 feet wide and four stories in height. The building is to be of rough brick with trimmings of Ohio lime-stone, and the architecture is practically of the colonial order, much like Hollis and Stoughton. There will be four entrances, two on the Oxford street side and two on the Jarvis field side, so that the building will eventually face on the quadrangle when the field is built upon...
Conant Hall, on the opposite side of the street, will be 164 ft. long, 94 ft. wide and four stories high. The material for construction will be the same as that used for Perkins, but the lines in the plans do not follow so strictly the regular colonial style...
...diamond has again been improved. Once more sod has been removed and loam packed firmly in its place, until there is a broad path some fifteen or twenty feet wide running from first base all the way around to third base. There is hardly any possibility of bad bounds on balls to the infield...