Indiana University Bulletin (Volume 6, (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1909 Excerpt: ... shower-baths. The main floor and galleries are, on exceptional occasions, used also as an assembly room and for public entertainments; they have a seating capacity of about twelve hundred. The Women's Gymnasium is located in the west wing of the new Student Building, which has been planned and built especially for this purpose. The exercising room is 80 feet long by 50 feet wide, and is overlooked by a gallery on three sides. The room is well equipped with modern apparatus. Adjoining this main hall are the director's office and the offices for physical examination. On the floor below are the swimming pool 40 by 18 feet, twelve shower baths, three tub baths, twenty-four dressing rooms, and a full supply of lockers. THE UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENT The University and its environment are seen at their best in the spring and summer. Despite the absence of any large body of water, the air is fresh and healthful, and the weather is seldom oppressive. The city of Bloomington has well-paved and well-shaded streets, lined with an increasingly large number of modern residences and cottages. Most of these are lighted with gas and electricity, and are supplied with city water; electricity is used also for lighting the streets. Not least in interest is the scenic beauty of the locality, enhanced as it is by extensive and fine growths of beech, oak, maple, and other trees. Many pike roads, leading in all directions from town, run for miles along ridges that afford a panoramic view of hills and valleys. Between the two roads leading to the east can be found in spring a profusion of the shiest and (for these regions) rarest of flowers, the trailing arbutus. A more ambitious trip by carriage or for sturdy walkers is to Weed Patch Hill, near Nashville, in Brown county, one of the ...