Word: coal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hall, which will be the headquarters, containing most of the offices, class rooms and drafting rooms, has been extensively changed. Partitions out in by the Navy have all been torn down and the whole building rewired and repainted. A modern oil-burning plant has been substituted for the old coal-consuming system. This serves the double purpose of furnishing power for the school as well as light and heat for several of the neighboring buildings...
...strikes illegal has been growing throughout the country during the present period of social unrest. Mr. Cummings in his railroad plan recommends its application to the railroad system, legislation now in progress in Massachusetts favors its enforcement in regard to the running of trolley lines; the injuction against the coal strike leaders is a significant sign of the Federal government's attitude...
...Harvard men can listen to intimate anecdotes of Harvard's most illustrious graduate from the lips of his associate and biographer, Mr. Thayer. This meeting will bring home the need of the nation today for the man who had the courage to say during a period of a threatened coal strike: "We will mine coal if the whole army...
...using oil as fuel, such as the Medical School, the Stillman Infirmary, Memorial Hall, the Union and Pierce Hall, will of course be in no way affected. Randolph Hall, Apthorp House and the Freshman dormitories get their heat from the Boston Elevated plant, which in turn gets its coal from the Nova Scotia fields, a district not affected by the strike. The outlying buildings of the University, such as the Observatory, which uses soft coal entirely, fortunately have their full supply in the bins...
...only in the event of a strike by the miners of the anthracite coal in support of the bituminous coal miners that the University will be crippled. Such a strike would, however, have no effect here until the first of January...