Oberlin College - Hi-O-Hi Yearbook (Oberlin, OH)

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l l l l t tl l iwu loom and in the center a low slate and a foot bath have been ar c ec o ie s It 2' ' , ' f f partition supports eight new showers, giving altogether seventeen, four of them lll the original slate stalls with rubber curtains, and the rest open. A passageway back of the custodianls office connects the two locker rooms so that it is possable to pass from one to the other, or to enter the toilet loom, without trax Cl sing the s iower room. The second floor of the new portion is entire y ,Q ve , 2 about sixty-five by thirty-five feet in area and twenty feet high. It is lined with pressed brick, wainseoted below and ceiled with yellow pine, and lighted on three sides by a row of small windows under the eaves. larger square ones just above the wallboard cap, and between the two sets six great semi-circular windows in place of the solid stone tympana which occupy corresponding positions in the older part of the building. as viewed from without. Two Tungsten clusters on the ceiling furnish artificial light. The fixed apparatus includes twenty starballs along the north wall, two swinging booms, a row of ten climbing ropes. two adjustable ladders. and two basketball backstops suspended from above and braced out from the wall. There are long benches for use at the slallbars Cthey can be inverted and used as balance beamsl, boom saddles, two pieces each of parallel bars, vaulting boxes, horses, bucks, and beat boards, fifty pairs each oi' wooden and iron dumb- bells and Indian clubs, with their wall racks, four dozen each oi' wooden and iron wands, with racks and box, and the usual gymnasium mats. The south wall is left unobstructed. for handball games. Stairways at the west end lead up to 'the running track in the large gymnasium and down into the small locker room. Double doors open from the front stairway, and another admits to the teachers' room at the northwest corner of the large gymnasium, but there is no direct communication between the two exercising rooms. A pair of windows in the back ol' the visitors' l Ui n over to L small gymnasimn gallery permits a general view ol' the smaller one. In the center of the third floor. above the new gymnasium and under the north slope of the skylight. IS a large room for photographic work for purposes of record Page 15

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The old stone steps at the terrace line in front of the main entrance have been replaced by new concrete ones, with stone piers on either side, surmounted by wrought iro11 bases which hold large globes for electric lighting. The front hall has been widened at the south end by cutting back the old instructor's room. Like the vestibule, its walls are of paneled wainscoting carried to the height of the door tops, the panels filled in with burlap painted a light green. At the right the hall opens into a room where the two instructors in physical training have their desks, and beyond it, occupying the northeast corner of the building, is Professor Savage's private office. It is connected with a new locker room at the rear by a passageway lined at the left with a wall case and shelving for supplies, etc., and giving entrance at the right into a private dressing room supplied with shower, wash bowl and toilet. In the new locker room itself, which fills the remainder of the first floor in the addition, there are two hundred and eighty-eight double-tier steel lockers, ar- ranged in alcoves of convenient size. Each locker is twelve inches square and three feet high, fastened with a combination lock, and ventilated through perforations in the front and back. In the center of every alcove is a long bench on fixed iron standards, and at the closed end are coat and hat hooks and a small plate glass mirror. More lockers can be added as the need arises, but with the four hundred and twenty-seven wooden ones in the old locker room, we now have on the main floor a total of seven hundred and fifteen, and since the largest enrolment in any one year hitherto has been six hundred and fifty-one, the present supply is likely to prove sufficient for some time to come. Stairways lead directly from this room to the basement and to the floor above, The old shower room, situated between the two locker rooms at the rear, has been much improved. Its floor, sloping to the side glitters or to a large drain in the center, has been relaid with a preparation of marble and cement. The toilet fixtures at its east end have been partitioned off with brick glazed on both sides, and high windows, and the new room thus formed is ventilated by means of an independent electrically-driven exhaust fan near the ceiling. More wash bowls Page H-

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and research in connection with physical examinations and to supply material needed for illustration in leetu1'es and clemonstirations. 'Adjoining it are a dressing room and dark room. Underneath the west slope of the roof is a janitor's living room, and corresponding to it on the east is storage space in which the bleachers uscd at lmaskellmall games can he hoisted through a hoxcd-in hole cut in the floor of the visitors' gallery at the north cnd of the large gymnasium. Somewhat less than one-third of the added basement area is devoted to a special exercising room at the front of the lnhlding. Its equipment comprises a quarter circle, lwo rowing pulley-weights, two forms of duplex pulley-weights, and a set of breast liars, and for use with these a neck machine, giant pulley, leg pulley and ahdominal strap and cleat. 'llwenty-one'single-tier steel lockers. fifteen hy twelve inches and five feet. high, extend along the west wall. They are intended for the use of visiting athletic teams, who may occupy this as a dressing room. Atl the opposite end of the hasement a large dressing room set apart. for our own men who lake part in outdoor sports, contains one hundred and fifty-six doulmle-tier steel lockers, together with benches, coat and hat hooks, and mirrors like those on the Hoor above. A passageway connecting the special exercising room with this locker room leads through a shower room with seven showers and a foot-hath, and a toilet room with wash-howls. lf desired, the visiting team can he given exclusive use of these two. while our men go upstairs to the main shower room. At other times it will not he necessary for students exercising out-of-doors to enter the first floor locker rooms or shower room at all. A gas-heated clothes dryer in one corner of the basement locker room, having tive racks or draws each eighteen inches wide and the whole measuring approximately seventeen feet long, eight feet three inches wide and seven feet high. will make possihle the quick drying of football suits and any other articles. Changes in the older portion of the building include in the main gymnasium the repair of the skylight to prevent further leaking. provision of a fire-escape leading from a new door cut in the south wall, a mueh improved system of electric lighting hy means of six Tungsten clusters overhead and a row of single lights X Pagc 16 I