Word: cellar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...commenced and the steel bookstacks, which on the southern half alone will have a capacity of about one and three-quarters millions of books, are nearing completion. 'For heat, the building will be dependent on outside sources, doing away with the dangers of a furnace and boilers in the cellar. A concrete tunnel has been built from Sever around the front of the library to permit the introduction of steam pipes on the west side. By this means, temporary heating facilities will be installed for the winter so that operations on the interior of the edifice may progress uninterrupted...
Ground was broken for the new projection last week, and the cellar is now being dug. It is expected that the roof will be on by next November and the building ready for the dedication ceremony about a year from...
...proper correlation of the subject as a whole. These changes in the matter of admission, oral, and general examinations are all phases of the same movement in education in which Harvard has taken the lead under President Lowell's administration and represent the development away from a system of cellar education to one of thorough mastery of a given subject in its various phases...
...jangling yesterday, saw the Yard invaded by a "horde of lusty Helots" armed with crow-bars and pickaxes; for their murderous intent upon Gore Hall was manifest. Those who have sat and read and writhed in its swivel seats, or waited while its alleged contents were sought form the cellar of Appleton or the garret of Conant, will pause to breathe the respectful sigh due its venerable three quarters of a century of existence. And thus passes Gothic Gore, former abode of ecumenic erudition and draughty discomfort...
...stand, a student doing any kind of advanced work will find some of his material in Gore Hall, a little more in the basement of Appleton Chapel, and before completing his work, he has generally had occasion to resort to the basement of Perkins Hall or some other cellar that certainly offers no adequate facilities for research work or proper protection for books...