Word: basement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...dark shades are raised and lowered easily from the back of the room. In one side of the platform for the stereopticons is a trap door which leads to the basement of the building. On the whole this new lecture room is far better than the old one, not only on account of its greater size, but because of the completeness and convenience of the fittings...
...lecture in Philosophy 12 was conducted Saturday in the basement of the Library where the instructor wished to show the students a number of books...
...basement of the new building are rooms for analysis and assaying, and also a fire proof room which is to be provided with smelting furnaces. Over these on the first floor are the general laboratories, the library, the assistant's room and the lecture room. The general laboratories contain tables covered with tiles, which will provide working places for eighty students. Each student is given an iron box in which to keep his instruments. These boxes are arranged in tiers along the wall. On the second floor are special laboratories for advanced classes. On the third floor the entire space...
...first floor of the Botany department is a fine large lecture room, given by N. C. Nash '84, in memory of his father. The floor slopes gradually down to the basement floor. The basement is meant for the chemical division of Botany, having a small room for charts and maps opposite the lower door of the lecture room, a room for photographic experiments and several store rooms. A little room, sunk in the ground below the basement, is kept at a constant temperature for certain experiments. Besides the lecture room, the first floor contains a large room for physiological experiments...
...basement is all the machinery. This consists of a self-operating pump, a boiler and a fan. This latter mixes the cool air with steam and thus provides the room with a moist atmosphere. This fan is called a "Sturtevant blower." There is a duplicate one in Technology. The boiler is of about eight horse power and sixty pounds...