Word: chimney
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...more we see it the better we like it. Scrooge's ghost is not nearly so empty and formal and cold as an ordinary ghost; on the contrary, it is very amiable and warm and merry, and improves on acquaintance. Nor does Scrooge's ghost come slyly down the chimney and pass on like a shadow, for after all it wants to make friends and is always ready to go more than half way in doing so. And it always feels that it has a particular claim on the Yule-tide season...
...thirds completed and will be ready for occupancy by the first of January, 1906. Although, owing to the severe weather, the work has not progressed very rapidly in the past few months, the walls and roots of all the buildings except the Administration. Building are now finished. The chimney of the power-house has also been completed and the boilers installed...
Foundations for the power house, situated on Villa street, 500 feet north of the main building, are laid, the three boilers are ready to be tested and bricked in, and all but 12 feet of the chimney is built. The building is to be of red brick trimmed with granite and limestone, except the engine room, which will be of face brick and brownstone...
...basement, second floor and back part of the main floor are for the use of the keeper. In the front part of the building on the main floor is a large reception room. This room is handsomely finished and has a large fireplace at one end with a chimney seat on either side. The room is intended for the use of students and their friends as a convenient place of meeting and resting on days of games...