Word: beds
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...close of Dr. Grenfell's lecture at the Union last evening the suggestion was made by Dr. C. J. Blake that the subscription raised for Dr. Grenfell's work, if sufficient, should be used for a Harvard bed in one of the hospitals which Dr. Grenfell has founded on the Labrador coast. The annual cost of such a bed would be a little over $50 and for this purpose $1200 or $1500 endowment would be necessary. No one should hesitate to send a subscription because it is small. As announced at the meeting, subscriptions may be sent to the undersigned...
During the past week the rope fire escapes which were in all the bed-rooms above the first floor in Matthews, Weld, and Holyoke House have been replaced by new ones of the same pattern, but with heavier ropes. This work of changing the fire escapes in every bedroom above the first floor in all dormitories owned by the University will be continued as fast as the new ones ordered are received...
Nearly all the rope fire escapes will be replaced by others of the same general type, but with larger ropes, heavier travelers, and a safer band. These escapes are reversible, and will be placed in every bed-room...
...included in the first term-bill, payable in February. In return for this fee every student in a Cambridge department will, in case of sickness and upon the order of a physician, be admitted to the Stillman Infirmary, where he will be entitled without further charge to a bed in a ward, board, and ordinary nursing for a period not exceeding two weeks in any one academic year. Students in the Boston departments of the University and unmarried officers of instruction or administration may insure to themselves the above-named benefits, by paying the annual fee of four dollars...
...work of alteration in Hollis and Stoughton Halls has been carried on through the summer and is now nearly complete. Every room is furnished with hot water heating apparatus, and with hot and cold running water. On each floor in both entries, occupying the present bed-room space at the ends of the halls, a set of shower baths and lavatories has been installed; while porcelain bath tubs have been placed in the basements. In order to permit of bath room facilities on the first floor as well as the others, the west entry stairways have been modified to correspond...