Word: basement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House has certain definite advantages. It is the smallest with only 207 members. As an architectural unit the original quadrangle is a good one, although its appearance at the moment is shabby. Kirkland has the distinction of possessing in its basement the kitchen in which is prepared the food whereby most of the members of the Houses keep body and soul together. It has a charming library unlike any other in the University. The location of the House is convenient to the Yard and to Harvard Square and close to most of the other Houses. In addition to these purely...
...other sports Kirkland has failed to take any important part. There are hopes that a crew will be mustered to challenge the longer established rivals for the honors of the Charles. Where other House sports have languished, ping-pong has flourished and the bare green room in the basement of G entry rings with the noise of battle...
...members of Eliot House feel about it? Merely as a dormitory it is certainly as desirable as any other, in some ways more so. The lunch room in the basement is welcomed as an added convenience by most. The House has the double advantage of being on the Charles, within reasonable distance of the square. Few of the undergraduate members would say, however, that the higher advantages promised by the House Plan have been adequately realized. Even allowing for the fact that Eliot is in its first year, this feeling remains. It is especially strong in respect to the tutors...
...Magdelene College, the football from the first Dunster-Lowell game, now slowly deflating but still under glass in the dining room, balancing the squash trophy. Because there are only two main entrances to the House both of these remain open all night. There are eight squash courts in the basement, aired by an expensive ventilating system. The two common rooms, with no distinction except size between them, are furnished in conservative, masculine taste. The library is one of unusual distinction because of the White gift and the Literature, Social Science, and Fine Arts shelves are especially well stocked. The food...
...Bicycle Race were from 5 to 15 Ib. heavier than when they started. They had not slept much-five hours per day, mostly between 5 a. m. and noon-but they had made up for it by eating huge quantities of beef, chicken and raw celery. The basement of Madison Square Garden is never more malodorous, even when populated by show dogs or poultry, than when its catacombs are used as massage rooms and restaurants for cyclists. The odors permeated from the basement to the arena where the riders resided in beaver board shanties beside the track and where...