Word: basement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...chief change has been made in the basement or cellar of the building, where a complete metamorphosis has taken place. In the western end of this floor a large, well-lighted and well ventilated room has been made out of what was formerly a dark and comparatively useless cellar. In order to effect this change, the brick partitions, which formerly separated the cellar into several rooms, were removed and in their place were put iron girders supported by small iron pillars. The old windows which were very small and high up, were lengthened and broadened. This new room is ventilated...
...frontage of the building is 72 and its depth 129 feet. The front part contains the lecture and smaller laboratory rooms, while the rear contains the large laboratories, one on each of the three main floors. The basement is used also for experiments, as well as a storeroom, and the upper story is fitted up as a dormitory for the instructors and their assistants. The largest laboratory, and that for the freshmen, is on the third floor and accommodates eighty-eight. There are laboratory accommodations for as many more, and two rooms have been reserved for libraries of a technical...
According to the Regulations of the Bursar, students intending to use College rooms for Class Day purposes are requested to notify the Janitor before June 15 so that the necessary arrangements can be made, and must apply to the Janitor before that date for the basement rooms, if desired, for the use of caterers. The porters are entitled to compensation by the students for any extra service rendered by them or their employes in consequence of the use of rooms for spreads...
...third story will be devoted to ten lecture rooms and to rooms for the officers of the college. The main depository for books will be situated in the basement of the building, which will be entirely above ground...
...reserved books in the reading room of Gore Hall will not be moved until June 17th, when they will be placed in Lower Massachusetts. The rest of the books in the reading room will be stored until the autumn in the basement of Perkins Hall...