Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Under these conditions, certain classes now in the University may live to receive notices from "U4" stating that on and after a given date no lecture will be held until further notice owing to a sympathetic strike called by the faculty favoring the Boiler-makers Union. Such a possibility recalls those medieval days when a professor might find a notice in his lecture room stating that the students refused to attend or reimburse the dominus until he agreed to certain terms. It has taken almost a millennium to turn the tables, yet today we face the fact...
...basement will be the boiler room, space for storage, and in the rear--directly under the composing room--the press room. The top floor will be taken up entirely by a sanctum for the editors...
...harmony of brown, blue and gold. The chestnut wood. The furniture, the upper floor of the building has been turned into a series of suites for the use of club members only. There is a large billiard room in the basement; and numerous showers, coat rooms, and the necessary boiler and kitchen rooms take up the remaining space...
...Widener Library and Freshman Dormitories demand so large an amount of steam that it cannot be supplied by existing boiler plants of the University, nor by additions to them, and the College, therefore, arranged to purchase the surplus steam from the Boston Elevated Railway. If this excess can be utilized through the new tunnel by the University, it would reduce the smoke nuisance from the power station, and would eliminate much of the smoke, and teaming of ashes and coal in the Yard...
Improve the river-front! Never, since some wild Idealist suggested making Harvard Square a business centre, has such a radical suggestion been heard, Conceal that triumph of architecture, the boiler-factory, in a spinney of Japanese hemlocks! Cover those pebbly, tin-canned shores, where laps the limpid Charles, with clumps of alligator pear trees and groo-groo palms! Yet the scheme has its advantages. The exiled Freshman, in his far-off lonely habitation, may feel that he has at least sympathy, if he can watch from his window the weeping willows drooping over the water. The lone oarsman can compromise...