Word: enamel
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...racks which hold the sixty miles of shelves are all in place. Both are of pressed steel, covered with a dark grey enamel. There are sixteen floors of these cases, capable of holding 2,500,000 volumes. Work on them has ceased, and the shelves will be in place by the first of April. These main book cases are extremely open. They extend only seven and a half feet from the floor, so that every volume may be reached without a stand. Means for transporting the books to and from the shelves, and a numbering system, have been carefully arranged...
...rooms and studies in all the dormitories are typically colonial. The studies have broad windows with built-in window seats and the finish is white enamel in bedroom, study and bath room. All the doors are wide and white, with heavy brass handles and on the outside doors are hospital thumb-latches. The large general rooms have ample air space, and the bedrooms and studies are nine feet high...
...building stands just above the present residence on Quincy street, and the simple and unaffected colonial plan of the exterior is preserved within, where the predominating some will be white. The woodwork will be of dull finished white enamel, wainscoating being used in the dining room, reception room, and entrance hall, in keeping with the colonial style. The doors will be made of dark mahogany, in sharp but pleasing contrast with the lighter colors about them...
...Senior class buttons have arrived and are now on sale at Leavitt & Peirce's at 25 cents each. The design is in the shape of a shield in blue and white enamel. All men wishing to obtain buttons should do so at once, as the supply is limited...