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...sufficiently large to furnish two foot ball fields, and give an excellent chance for base ball. This fall the donor has built a track which, as far as advantages go, will put Williams on an equal footing with her rivals. The track is oblong in shape, fifteen feet wide and a sixth of a mile in circuit. It is very carefully underdrained and is composed of pin gravel covered to a depth of nine inches with cinders. The track is so arranged that the finish of the races will be opposite the grand stand which is also just back...
...exist. It keeps what is good in men where its influence cannot be felt and makes it impossible to approach what is bad. He urged men not to allow themselves to get bound by any narrow set of laws, but to try to make their lives felt in as wide a circle as possible. Moreover, he said that one of the ways to do this was by attending to the religious services which the college has instituted. He expressed admiration for the work which the Harvard system was accomplishing, but sincerely hoped to see, in time, a deep religious spirit...
...chimes. The ground floor will be taken up by four seminary rooms and an auditorium with seating capacity for one thousand people. The main entrance opens directly into a vestibule with a large open fire-place. The reading room is one hundred and twenty feet long, seventy-two wide and thirty eight feet high. The other rooms and the stacks are proportionately large. There will be room for nearly 400,000 volumes. The entire building will be finished inside with marble, iron and glass so as to be perfectly fireproof. The library is built as a memorial to Jennie McGraw...
...special reference library has been given to the college for the use of students in Philosophy 11, the Ethics of Social Reform. The new library is in Lower Dane Hall and will be open to all students. It contains several hundred volumes, selected and arranged by Professor Peabody, The wide range of the course makes a complete library impossible, yet there are many books on all the main topics and the library will undoubtedly be of the greatest value to men in the course...
...place. The rowing tank is placed in the left wing and is designed after the one recently arranged. A large dressing room lined with lockers leads off the front of the rowing room. The right wing is occupied by a base ball cage, 80 feet long by 30 feet wide, and leading off from this is another dressing room also lined with lockers. Back of the hall on the right of the fire-places are two "Fives Courts," and a stairway leading to a large meeting room for the various athletic societies. One side of this is also lined with...