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

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The result is a building better heated, ventilated, lighted, and cleaned than ever before, with two rooms available for class work and another for prescribed individual work, and all three for voluntary exercise, much more adequate provision for indoor games, locker accommodations ample' for all probable demands, the greatly needed separate dressing rooms and baths for men engaged in outdoor sports, and comfortable quarters for visiting athletic teams. F. E. LEONARD. Page 18

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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

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