Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...temporarily engaged in tearing down the wooden north stand. These thirty-five men have been occupied chiefly with removing the temporary seats below the parapet and above the promenade, and storing them away underneath the Stadium for future use. During the past week, also, the holes left in the cement by the hammering in of the bolts have been filled up. The number of employees will now shortly be reduced to twelve men, who will be retained throughout the winter, occupied chiefly in rolling and levelling the ground. As soon as spring comes this force will be greatly increased...
Early yesterday morning, men were set to work tearing down the grand stands on both sides of the old football field. The large beams will be used to make temporary seats on the south end of the Stadium where cement seats will be in place only about half way up. The seats of the old stands will be used to lay over the new cement seats. It has also been decided to increase the natural seating capacity of the Stadium for the Yale game by ten more entire rows. This will be done by erecting four rows of temporary seats...
...these have been surgical, half of which have required operation. One man might have lost his life if it had not been for the Stillman Infirmary, and the father of the patient has written a letter of warmest appreciation, in which he says: "If anything were needed to completely cement my attachment to Harvard, this furnishes it." Of the medical cases the most serious is one of typhoid fever. He is doing very well, however...
...thirty-three feet wide and will be built on the south side of the present building. It will contain one large room to be used as a laboratory for elementary classes in chemistry, and also a basement for general use. The construction will be supported by brick piers. Cement plaster will be used on the outside so as to match the main building as much as possible. Work will begin in about ten days and the addition will be ready for occupancy at the opening of the University in the fall...
...small grand-stand has been built as an experiment near the baseball stands. The stand is built entirely of cement, supported by a steel frame, and is of the type which it is hoped to put up on the football field, if this experiment proves a success...