Word: fire-proof
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Smoking has always been taboo in the vicinity of lecture rooms, and other places of study regardless of the fire-proof nature of the buildings, Boughton stated. The close association between the laboratories themselves, the classrooms, and the library, where smoking would be out of the question, render any exception in the case of the corridors impossible as it would be difficult to draw line where smoking should begin and end. Extra caretakers to enforce the rule are unwanted, and a burden would be placed on the cleaners...
...plans for the new building also include a third floor entirely given over to offices, a lecture hall, several meeting rooms, and a library, also fire-proof, to house the valuable collection of 65,000 volumes and pamphlets, which ranks second only to that of the United States Naval Observatories at Washington. It is expected that the new building will take care of additions to the books and plates collections for the next 40 years...
Under Professor Farlow's will, this collection, comprising about eleven thousand volumes, was given to Harvard on condition that, within three years, after the testator's death, suitable arrangements should be made for placing it in fire-proof quarters in proximity to the Farlow harbarium of cryptogamic plants, already owned by the University. These conditions have been met by the decision of the Corporation to house both the Farlow library and the herbarium in the Divinity Library building on Divinity Avenue, Cambridge...
...necessary alterations are now being made in the building and a fire-proof addition is being constructed to hold the herbarium, the money for this purpose having been given by friends of the University and of its botanical department. The Farlow library will be installed as soon as this work is done...
...stabling facilities have been greatly improved and in addition a fire-proof equipment building and a machine shop have been constructed. A corral has been added in order that the horses will have a place to exercise, and an out door riding ring is now nearing completion. This will serve as a new location for the instruction of classes in equitation...