Word: containing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...basement of the new building are rooms for analysis and assaying, and also a fire proof room which is to be provided with smelting furnaces. Over these on the first floor are the general laboratories, the library, the assistant's room and the lecture room. The general laboratories contain tables covered with tiles, which will provide working places for eighty students. Each student is given an iron box in which to keep his instruments. These boxes are arranged in tiers along the wall. On the second floor are special laboratories for advanced classes. On the third floor the entire space...
...arrangement will be after the plan of the British Museum. The fourth floor serves as a broad gallery running about the large specimen room, the centre being left open to better the conditions for light. The gallery will also contain show cases. The funds for this spacious exhibition room were raised by Professor Cook and Dr. Huntlngton. When all the plans have been carried out and the building stands completed, it will be one of the finest museums in the world. Boylston Hall will then be given up entirely to the Department of Chemistry...
...rooms in the upper story of the building are necessarily few as the tank, cage and courts extend to the roof. There are only two, and a tub bath. The former contain about sixty lockers...
...window seat; the library, where the valuable reference books and classics of the Institute library will be; the breakfast room and the butler's pantry. The kitchen is in the basement. Up stairs there are a secretary's room, overflow library, bath room and pool room. The latter will contain at one end the pictures and scores of the '92 teams; the rest of the room will be decorabed with various team pictures. It is hoped that as men leave college they will give pictures and other decorations to the club house. The expense will be met by the increased...
...Justices of the Supreme Court. Jay's services as representative of the Confederacy at Madrid would entitle him to a place in a history of the diplomats of the country. The life of a man whose claims to posthumous fame are based upon so many conspicuous public services must contain much of interest to American readers. Yet it is evident that the author of "John Jay," in the American Statesmen series, does not rest his real claim for the fame of Jay upon his services as a political leader, governor of New York, or Chief Justice...