NEW GYMNASIUM AT AMHERST.

A week ago last Saturday the new gymnasium given by Mr. C. M. Pratt, '78, of Brooklyn, N. Y. was formally opened. The building is 120 feet long, 80 feet wide, covering more than double the space occupied by the old Barrett gymnasium. The main hall consists of a large room 90x57, which will be devoted to class exercises and general drills. Adjoining this room is a smaller, 27x12, which is filled with special apparatus, such as rowing machines, health-lifts, etc. Around the main hall, supported on iron columns, runs the track, twenty-five laps of which make a mile, and the corners can be raised or lowered for fast or slow running, as desired. Under the track, as in the Harvard gymnasium, the greater part of the apparatus will be placed, costing in all about $2,500.

The dressing-rooms on the right of the main entrance are furnished with about 300 lockers, through which run ventilating shafts. This room communicates with the bathrooms, which are fitted up with all the modern conveniences, and it is thought that Turkish baths will soon be introduced. On the other side of the building is the statistician's room. Every student in the college must submit himself to a thorough examination three times during his course, and the resulting figures will be grouped together, and thus the average health and development of the college can be obtained from year to year. Above the entrance is a billiard room containing three tables, for the use of which only a small fee is charged sufficient to keep the tables and furniture in repair.

The basement will be fitted up with three bowling alleys, an open space 50x20 for club swinging, a baseball cage 90x23, and a sparring room 18x18.

The building has cost thus far about $50,000, and $10,000 more will be put into apparatus. [News.