Word: basement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard's new dormitory, which will be called the Walter Hastings Hall, after its donor, is now well under way, and will probably be ready for use in the fall of 1889. The basement and two lower stories are already built, and it is hoped that the building will be entirely closed in before winter, so that the plastering may be done during the cold weather. The exterior dimensions are 210x120 feet, and the material used in construction is a yellowish-brown brick, mottled with blue, which is made by the Perth Amboy Company in New Jersey. This material...
...exhibition rooms. The addition to the Agassiz Museum is 110 feet long, and will be used for botany, geology, and physical geography. The central portion, for the length of 70 feet will be devoted to botany. The arrangement of rooms in this section will be as follows: In the basement will be chemical and photographic laboratories. The ground floor will contain synoptic exhibition room and a lecture room, with a capacity of about 200 people. The next story will be devoted to plianerogramic laboratories. The main exhibition rooms will occupy the third and fourth floors. The specimens for these rooms...
...charge of an attendant and will have no communication with the main library except through a single door. In addition to the books, the library will contain a large and valuable collection of coins, which the college now owns. A safe will be provided for their security. In the basement will be rooms for cataloguing, and accommodation for unpacking, binding and repairing. The building will be heated by furnace, and will have an engine and fan to provide thorough ventilation...
...extensive improvements in the Columbia College buildings in the coming summer. The changes are to be made under the direction of Charles C. Haight, a New York architect. The plans include an extension of the School of Mines building so that it will be four stories high with a basement. A tower will occupy the space of 45x60 feet on the corner of Fourth avenue and 49th street. A new lecture hall 40x60 feet is to be built on the site at present occupied by the president's house. It is not yet fully decided whether the new lecture hall...
...BAYER, Secretary.ALL those wishing to try for the 'Varsity tug-of-war team will meet in the basement of the gymnasium at three o'clock Thursday afternoon...