Word: cellars
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...else Edward Goffe's house, which stood on the next lot, and before 1654 had been acquired by the College for use as a dormitory. It was called "Goffe's Colledge" and is described in the early College records as containing "five chambers, 18 studies, a kitchen, cellar, and 3 garrets." The position of the foundation wall to the west of Wadsworth House makes the identification of the building with the Goffe house the more probable. As the work of excavation progresses to the eastward, it is likely that the foundations of the original College building will be found...
...humor to maintain their dubious reputation. It is rumored that F. Beets Boodle, notorious in sporting circles, and a former Philadelphia star, will attempt to fill the gap between second and third base, while the unearned increment will be devoted to pumping the water out of the new cyclone cellar in front of Randolph...
...charges of neglect and mismanagement made by a correspondent in your issue of last Saturday? If your correspondent will look at the Trophy Room, he will see the reason why at the present moment banners, footballs, the Ardsley Cup, and other trophies are stored in the Gymnasium cellar. There is no room for them in the Trophy Room. What banners hang there are too closely spaced, and of the two cases there, one is already over-crowded with baseballs, and the other, devoted to football, baseball, and track cups has no more space than can be devoted to a very...
Last night, about 7 o'clock, the hot water boiler, used to heat the swimming tank in Waverley Hall, exploded, blowing up the heavy stone steps at the entrance to the building, breaking several large windows on the first floor, and making a hole in the cellar wall...
...heavily constructed masonry cell having two small openings for air, and this cell was protected by the brow of a spur of cliffs. The man was burned somewhat by hot dust but was otherwise unhurt. In the case of the men at Orange Hill, they were in a large cellar which was absolutely closed. The explosive blast which followed the ignition of gases by lightning killed every one where there was open circulation of air, while the men in the cellar escaped entirely unhurt. From these and similar cases, Dr. Jaggar concludes that closed tomb-like places built of masonry...