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...such work is estimated at about $50,000, and until this sum is donated, the work in this quarter must be limited. The results of these years of experiment and research are stored in a wooden building, liable at any time to be destroyed by fire. The need of a fire-proof building to insure the preservation of the valuable collection is very urgent, and as over $7,000 has already been subscribed it is hoped that a suitable structure may be begun early this year...
From the annual report of the Astronomical Observatory which was noticed in Wednesday's CRIMSON, it appears that the collection of astronomical photographs and manuscript records, accumulated by years of patient work, is stored in a wooden building, for the reason that there is no available fire-proof building on the observatory grounds. Though the presence of this collection may be an aid, it is by no means necessary in the work of observation conducted at the observation conducted at the observatory, while the examination of the photographs with reference to the phenomena pictured by them, could be carried...
Forwards the end is a description of the Physical Laboratory and of the Chemical Laboratory. Bo li of these buildings are of brick and are supplied with gas and steam throughout. The latter is fire-proof...
...sundown every day of the college year. The need is nothing new. Two years ago a petition signed by nearly every student of the University was presented to the Corporation asking to have Gore Hall lighted by electricity. The Corporation deemed this unsafe, since the present building is not fire-proof: and impossible, since they had not the funds necessary to make it fire-proof. President Eliot in his last Annual Report refers to the Librarian's report which treats of this matter as follows...
...college this fall, in order to raise as large a subscription as possible among the students themselves, and then, by a circular-letter, to appeal to the Alumni for the rest. In answer to their inquiry, President Eliot replied that "a plain stone building of sufficient size, made fire-proof and lighted by electricity could hardly be built and furnished for less than...