Word: basement
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...submitted to the corporation. The question respecting the erection of the building has not yet been decided. The matter will be dependent on their action. The plans call for a dormitory 120 feet long by 46 feet wide and five stories in height, not including a high studded basement. It is roughly estimated that the new structure will cost about...
...work of returning to the Library those books which were moved out last May is now rapidly nearing completion. This work was commenced on February 7, and already about 70,000 volumes have been moved from the basement of Perkins Hall where they have been stored. It is expected that by the end of this week all the books will have been taken from this building. There are also in the neighborhood of 15,000 volumes in the Divinity School, all of which will probably be moved into the Library by the end of next week, thus making...
...this column yesterday morning we spoke of the use of the room in the basement of the Gymnasium by the candidates for the Mott Haven Team. We have unintentionally done the Mott Haven Team an injustice, and we acknowledge and regret the mistake. The room mentioned, which last year was used as the cage for the practice of the Freshman baseball candidates, had been used this year by the classes in gymnasium work and not by the Mott Haven candidates. This fact, however, does not materially alter what we said yesterday. It remains true that the Freshman baseball candidates have...
...good place in which to practice starting. It is equally true that the prospects of the freshman baseball team should not be injured for want of a place where it may train its men. It, then, the only place available for these two teams is the room in the basement of the Gymnasium, it seems only fair that this room should, if possible, be made to serve both purposes. This is what it has done in past years, and what it could do again by removing the boards from half of the floor. This might not make an entirely satisfactory...
Brown University had a narrow escape from losing its ancient Hope College and Manning Hall by fire on Tuesday afternoon. A janitor discovered a lively blaze in the basement of Hope College in a large waste-paper bin. A general alarm was sent out; but before aid arrived the fire had reached the roof. Eight rooms were burned out, the roof was burned, and all the other rooms in the building were soaked. The loss is about $5000 to the corporation and $1500 to the students. The losses are covered by insurance. Hope College is the oldest of the Brown...