Word: chimney
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...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...
...that of the Faculty room in University Hall. The walls are divided into panels which are to be painted by Mr. Martin Mower, of the department of Fine Arts, after the manner of Boucher. The arms of France, of Corneille and of Racine will be painted on the chimney piece by Mr. La Rose. The alcove, in which stood the lectum of the St. Paul's Society, is fitted with book cases. The furniture will be of mahogany, especially designed for the room, and a new door of mahogany has been put in to take the place...
...this suggests another point in which language is interesting. The little facts of domestic history are to be found imbedded in it, and not only so, but we may trace in it sometimes the tide lines and driftmarks of civilization. The word chimney, for example, coming into English from the Latin by the way of Italian and French, gives us good ground for suspecting that the mass of the population of Saxon England before the Norman conquest got rid of their smoke by the less ingenious outlet of door and window. In cordwainer (still the legal designation of shoemaker...