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

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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

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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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set well back under the running gallery, enlarged facilities for heating and ven- tilating. and an arrangement for hoisting bleachers up into the storage space already mentioned. On the floor below Professor Savageis former office is now restored to its first use as a waiting room to the directoris oflice. In the basement the great unfinished open space at the east, originally intended for three pairs of bowling alleys, has been cut up into two good handball courts in front and separated from them by a narrow passage, three rooms, each ap- proximately twenty-four by fifteen feet, set apart for fencing, boxing and wrestling, respectively. The wrestling room contains a one-piece mat which entirely covers its floor. All partitions here, except the one dividing the two handball courts, are of low tile walls with wire screens above, to admit light from three directions. A new stairway from the northeast corner of the large locker room gives immediate access to these basement rooms without the necessity of crossing the ball cage. At the north end, near the entrance to the front hall, is a striking bag drum large enough to accommodate three bags. An additional storeroom for athletic supplies has been walled off, and the ball cage floor is relaid at a higher level to put it beyond the reach of flooding after heavy rains. The basement windows are all of them screened with heavy wire on the outside, and inside screens have been added in the older portion wherever there is danger of breakage. New concrete coal bins outside the walls are filled through man-holes over which the wagons can be driven. A steam boiler has been substituted for the old hot. water one, and a Wilkes heater and thousand-gallon storage tank take the place of the smaller one which formerly supplied hot water for the showers. A fan operated by electric motor has been set in the fresh-air chamber, to ventilate both gymnasia and locker rooms. Every part of the building is reached by a vacuum- eleaning system, through piping which leads from numerous inlet valves on each floor to a three-horse-power electrically-driven turbine air pump in the basement. New sanitary drinking fountains have been installed in the large gymnasium, the shower room, and the front hall, and many minor improvements have been made. Page 17