Word: fire-proof
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...Chemical and Physical Laboratories have been very busy during the past year, both in teaching science and in advancing scientific knowledge. The Observatory is now sufficiently endowed to make its future secure as a permanent establishment for astronomical research. The one need of the observatory is a fire-proof building to contain the valuable records of unpublished observations and records...
...brought up; and perhaps it is just as well not to let the matter be forgotten, but at the same time we must not be unreasonable in our demands and complaints. In the first place the danger from fire is great. Gore Hall itself-I do not speak of the wing containing the stack-is anything but fire-proof. It is, perhaps, not generally known, that those apparently substantial columns in the waiting-room are in reality hollow, and composed for the most part of laths and plaster. Secondly, financial considerations stand in the way; for the recent bequests...
...University possesses a fine library of about 130,000 volumes, which number is steadily increasing. A large reading-room is open all day to the students, in the main building, and as the building is new and fire-proof there is no hesitation whatever in lighting the gas on winter afternoons. There is also a very good Natural History Museum belonging to the university, and a collection of valuable relics of antiquity belonging to the Government...
Dartmouth is to have a new chapel at a cost of $30,000, and a library at a cost of $50,000. The latter building is to be absolutely fire-proof and will have a capacity of 120,000 volumes. The project of building a law school has not yet been decided upon...
Bloomington University has within the scope of the plans of her contemplated buildings, the following: one each for Chemistry and Physics, the Natural, Sciences, Language and Literature, fire-proof library, chaoel and observatory, Music and Fine Arts. The first two she will at once erect...