Word: basements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Drinker has had constructed in the basement of the School of Public Health building a model granite cutting shop, with all the typical cutting and surfacing machines. Various granite associations, much interested in the experiments, contributed must of the machines and are sending a granite cutter to work in the model shop under typical condition. As Professor Drinker's special field is ventilation, he expects to conduct most of his researches in this line, with the view of cleaning out the dust laden air in the shops before the workers have had time to breathe...
...present plans the inside of the main building is merely divided into squares. It is probable however that about 18 squash courts will occupy the ground and second floors; in the basement there may be a second and smaller swimming pool, primarily for beginners, and on the third floor three basketball courts may be built, a large central floor being flanked on either side by a slightly smaller court. For intercollegiate basketball games on the center court, stands may be erected on the two smaller courts...
...completion of the new heating plant, which will serve practically all the University buildings north of the College Yard, has made it possible for the Museum authorities to take out of the basement the great steam boilers, and the space thus vacated will be used for storing the scientific publications of the University until they are distributed among subscribers and the institutions with which the Museum makes exchanges. The walls of rooms have been painted, with the result that the whole interior has been freshened and brightened...
...gifts made conditional to the raising of further donors and those working to raise funds an additional incentive. Gifts made conditional to the raising of further funds also guard the donor against the danger, proved in the past to be very real, of having his money spent on a basement or foundation, the rest of the building being dependent upon pledged funds which often fail to appear...
...called everybody Al. Usually they stopped and gave him something. Griffo was grateful; he never begged. Even newsboys gave him papers which he perused gravely. Griffo could not" read, but he liked the pictures. He could not even read the tattered bunch of clippings he kept back in the basement room. Someone had taught him to recognize his name in print...