Word: basement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...society has been obliged to open temporary quarters for its furniture department in the Post Office Building, Harvard square, as the subway construction of the Boston Elevated Railway is underneath the Lyceum Building and has deprived the society of the use of its basement during the fall rush...
...recognized meeting place for many organizations, and mass meetings and smokers are usually held there. The restaurant furnishes excellent fare at a nominal price. It is also a reader's resort with a library and files of newspapers and periodicals, from all sections of the country. The basement and third floor provide offices for the undergraduate papers, the CRIMSON, Advocate and Monthly. In short the Union is an institution aiming not only to supply many material needs of the students in the University, but also to foster the best ideals of comradeship, loyalty and unity in college life...
...these inky corridors involve the risk of headlong tumbles down staircases, and, in case of fire, absolute danger. To fully appreciate the significance of these conditions, it is necessary to attempt to make one's way after midnight from the top floor of Weld, Matthews, or Thayer to the basement...
...showers. Thayer, at present, does not afford much opportunity to use water. There are a very few set bowls scattered throughout the building. For the vast majority of the men, who do not happen to get one of the rooms thus equipped, one set bowl is provided in the basement of each entry. In each of the entries in Thayer there is but one shower with four sprays. There should be one on each-floor...
...most inadequate of all are the toilet facilities in Holworthy and Thayer. In the basement of the former is one toilet room for the whole building. More need not be said. In Thayer there is one toilet in the basement of each entry. "They are all underground, gloomed by high-set, unclean windows, which preclude good ventilation, and lighted by one or two dim-flickering gas jets. The rough brick walls are often dirty and the wood work is worse. Compared to any respectable house or hotel they are Mr. Viles." This description is not overdrawn...