Word: fire-proof
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...would have advantages which a separate building could not give them. In this way one of the twelve alcoves could be filled. Then, too, several of our College societies have libraries which they might, perhaps, be willing to use for this purpose. Their books would then be in a fire-proof building, would be properly cared for, and of doubled usefulness. The Yale societies have made such a disposal of their libraries, and if our societies did the same, it would be recognized by all the students as a generous act. I make these suggestions because I feel sure that...
...report calls attention to various needs of the University, among which is "a new hall to contain lecture-rooms for the College." "At least sixteen lecture-rooms," it is stated, "are imperatively demanded." Further the University needs a fire-proof building for the Divinity School Library, "a new gymnasium of three times the capacity of the present building," and apparatus and collections for the Fine Arts Department. The President, moreover, calls for three new professorships, namely, a professorship of Jurisprudence, a professorship of ecclesiastical history, and a professorship of hygiene...