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...track of the University of Pennsylvania, with all the necessary buildings, etc., has been completed. It is an oval quarter-mile cinder path, eighteen feet wide on the straight and fifteen on the remainder...
Rule 10. Batsman's lines six feet long by four feet wide, with its nearest line six inches from the home base...
...faculty of the school is composed of twelve teachers. French and German lectures will be given, and French, German, Italian and Spanish tables will be formed. Dr. Sauveur is one of the most competent and successful teachers of languages in this country, and his summer school has gained a wide and deserved popularity...
...week ago last Saturday the new gymnasium given by Mr. C. M. Pratt, '78, of Brooklyn, N. Y. was formally opened. The building is 120 feet long, 80 feet wide, covering more than double the space occupied by the old Barrett gymnasium. The main hall consists of a large room 90x57, which will be devoted to class exercises and general drills. Adjoining this room is a smaller, 27x12, which is filled with special apparatus, such as rowing machines, health-lifts, etc. Around the main hall, supported on iron columns, runs the track, twenty-five laps of which make a mile...
...give technical training to this extent, nor would it be wise that it should. Those who advocate this training as a necessary part of a college education have a mistaken idea of the true position of a university in the intellectual development of the country. There is a wide distinction between a mechanical education and a university training. Abundant opportunities are given for the former at places of instruction like the Institute of Technology with its School of Mechanic Arts. There better facilities are offered for a technical education than could ever be found at a college or university...