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184 A THUMB-NAIL HIroI oF ly fire-proof construction, heated by steam, lighted by electricity, cleaned by vacuum apparatus, and equipped with the most approved forms of sanitary plumbing, providing adequate bathing facilities on every floor. The general plan for the improvement of the site of the Institute calls for a number of playing and exhibition fields in the vicinity of the residential groups. In fact the wide expanse of the campus affords abundant space for every variety of physical exercise. A determined effort will be made to systematize and make general a sane devotion to out-door sports in climatic conditions, which render athletics and open-air gymnastics profitably possible the whole year round. The daily time-table of each student will include a definite period under the instructor in athletics. Similarly with a view to developing every student in the manly art of self-defense in oratory and disputation there have been appointed, in the South Tower of the first Residential Hall for Men, halls for two literary and debating societies, whose activities should supplement the work of certain chairs under the faculty of letters.
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