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...largest panel in the building, made of carved brick, with a central piece containing the College coat-of-arms, which consists of a right-angled barred shield, bearing three open books and the motto "Veritas" on the face. The roof of the building will be plain, broken only by dormer windows, two on each side, and one at each end, with but a slight projection. These windows are all quadruple, four in each group. Two large chimneys at each end will rise through the building, arching into one just below the roof and rising ten feet above it. Each dormer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVER HALL. | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

...door. On one side of this partition will be a bath-room, with two baths and five lavatoirs, a janitor's room, and a large club-room; on the other, there will be twenty-six lockers arranged in five rows, at right angles to the sides. On both sides dormer-windows will be projected, and if more light is needed, skylights will be cut in the roof. If the whole plan as proposed can be carried out with the two thousand dollars given by the Corporation, we shall have a very commodious, convenient, and handsome boat-house. For the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/10/1875 | See Source »

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