Word: basement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...veterinary hospital of the Harvard School of Veterinary Medicine, at the corner of Village and Lucas streets, Boston, will be constructed of brick with stone trimmings, fifty by sixty feet in area and three stories high, with a light and airy basement underneath. In the basement will be the forge room, the stalls and other accommodations for cattle, sheep, etc., and for the boiler and other steam heating apparatus and machinery to run the elevator. On the first floor of the building will be a large quadrangular space, surrounded by the stalls for horses. This is to be the lecture...
...being found to be the best for perfect ventilation and quick heating. There are two large rooms or wards, with two small rooms and bath-rooms adjoining. By this arrangement two different diseases can be treated here, and if occasion demands it eight students can be accommodated. In the basement is a kitchen with a cook stove and all necessary utensils, a laundry and cloacae. The house is heated by means of a furnace, and there are also fireplaces in each large room. These fires are always kept ready to be lighted, so that at a moment's warning...
...extra settees used in the gymnasium during the games have been stored away again in the chapel basement...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: As there is a rule that no coal shall be delivered in the college yard after half-past eleven in the morning, why is it that loads are often empted in the basement of University during the afternoon...
...basement of the gymnasium is generally very well filled by students who go to see the tug-of-war teams pull every afternoon. The first team that pulls is the senior, which may be seen on the cleats at 4. The men who are trying for it are Easton and Getchell for the place of anchor, and Batchelder, Ranney, R. Coolidge, Fuller and Lilienthal for the other three places...