Word: basement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Members of the classes of 1915 and 1916 who wish to try for positions as news editors of the CRIMSON are requested to report in the CRIMSON Office in the basement of the Union Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. At the same time members of the classes of 1914 and 1915 who wish to enter the editorial writing competition will also report, there being one position open to the class of 1914 and two open to 1915. At this meeting an outline of the work expected and of the system employed in the competitions will be made. Men interested...
...work now done by the small plant in the basement of University Hall, such as the printing of examinations, reports, catalogues and various pamphlets, will be undertaken by the new Press, in addition to as much book printing as can be handled...
Unfortunately, there is no immediate prospect of a special building for the Press, so that the plant in the basement of University Hall will have to be extended to occupy the rest of the basement. It is not intended that this shall be a commercial publishing establishment, as the University Presses of Yale and Chicago are tending to become, but rather a centre of dissemination for scholarly works...
...followed out in the exterior design. The base of the building is built of granite blocks and the three upper stories of dull Harvard brick with limestone trimmings. A limestone cornice adds the necessary finish to the front of the building. The structure is three stories high, with a basement all but three feet above the ground and a sub-basement entirely dark...
...basement are the thermostatic heating plant, a laboratory for work at a very constant temperature, a fire-proof room for the storing of inflamable chemicals and a filtering plant and fan. The basement proper contains a laboratory for high temperature work, a highly efficient dark-room, a storage battery room, an unpacking room, a janitor's room and a mechanician's room...