Word: fire-proof
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...dormitories in the Yard are not fire-proof by any means; in fact they would prove docile victims for the flames. However, the only protection afforded consists of a few extinguishers and some scrawny ropes. And to make the situation worse, the gas lights in the halls are extinguished at 12 o'clock, leaving the halls and stairs in inky darkness. The stairways in Matthews and Weld are so arranged, with the sky-light directly above them, that a fire once started would have a full sweep from the ground floor to the top, and would cut off the inmates...
...last June an editorial under the caption "Stygian Hailways," which condemned the practice of extinguishing gas-lights in the hallways of Yard dormitories at midnight. In convenience, risk, and, "in case of fire, absolute danger" were cited as reasons for remedying matters. It would seem that the recent fire in Randolph furnished strong support to our position at that time. The Yard buildings certainly are not fire-proof; nor are they oversupplied with easy means of egress. With the Yard itself none too brilliantly lighted up at night, it is hardly more than sane precaution to do away with...
...library, which is a famous theological collection and consists of about 70,000 volumes, some of which are rare manuscripts and first editions, will be housed in a specially constructed fire-proof stone and steel section of the building, having stack room for 150,000 volumes. With it will be placed the Harvard Theological Library. The chapel will be on the second floor of one division of the building and will be lighted by windows of old English pattern for which glass of the 13th and 14th century style is to be made. In the building will be four class...
...Herbarium a large fire-proof building is being constructed to serve as a place for the preservation of classified specimens. The structure will be complete about December...
...work has been publication. During the last 12 months the publications exceeded those of the first 30 years following the establishment of the Observatory. The continuation of the work on the annals is now the greatest need of the Observatory. An annual sum of $5,000 and a fire-proof building for the library are urgently needed...