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Dressed as a plain surveyor, bespattered with muddy water, a stranger registered in the Old Gilcher House, Danville, Ky., and was assigned to an attic bedroom with a dormer window, a shuck-mattress bed and tallow-dip candle, in the late '60s. The unknown guest demanded a decent room for the night, which infuriated the clerk who sized up the stranger and exclaimed: "That room is plenty good for the looks of you." Instantly the infuriated "surveyor" wrote across the page of the hotel register: "Surveyors: Locate the road just far enough away from Danville so its citizens...
...summary: ANDOVER HARVARD 1935 Hall, g. g., England Washburn, l.f.b. r.f.b., Irving Bird, r.f.b. l.f.b., Kingsley Preston, l.h.b. r.h.b., Wemple, Fuess Faweett, c.h.b. c.h.b., Coleman, Wemple Dormer, r.h.b. l.h.b., McGoodwin Vincent, l.o.f. r.o.f., Grover Darling, l.i.f. r.i.f., Reed, Gaggin, Russell Upton, c.f. c.f., Clos Williams, Bartow, r.i.f. l.i.f., Stork Badger, r.o.f. l.o.f., Robbins...
...students, similar to the freshman dormitories. For this purpose, some rooms are designed to serve a single student as study and bedroom, some suites have a study and double bedroom and others, a study and single bedroom. Some of the rooms on the top floors with dormer windows, will be rented at a lower price than the others. Private baths have been omitted, and general showers and toilets being less expensive, have been centrally located to be used by all the students. Rooms in each dormitory have been provided for the proctors, thus increasing the personal contact and good fellowship...
...likely that the building will be completed by early summer. The exterior of the house has been considerably changed from the design of the first building. The main roof has been made several feet lower and the pitch reduced, leaving a nearly flat top, 44x50 feet. Three dormer windows at each end of the second story take the place of the row of smaller windows in the original plan. The four projecting balconies at the corners thus appear as towers, 21 feet square, rising above the main roof, those fronting on the speedway being made square instead of bowed...
Full plans for the reconstruction of the tower have been prepared by Mr. Henry Van Brunt, one of the architects of Memorial. It is proposed to build a copper gable on each of the four faces of the tower, and to put new dormer windows above the dials of the clock, so as greatly to improve the appearance of the roof...