Word: glass
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...conditions of Illinois and the condition of the judiciary in San Francisco. Miss Todd, through her connection with Hull House in Chicago, has gathered her facts concerning the working classes t first hand, and s factory inspector in Illinois she learned of the disgraceful treatment of children in the glass factories of that state...
...Maurice Drake will lecture in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum on "Ancient Stained Glass in England" this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. Mr. Drake is one of the best known authorities in England on the subject on which he is to speak. He is himself a glass painter and has recently published a book on "The History of Stained Glass in England" which has met with an extremely favorable reception. Mr. Drake is in this country with the Grosvenor Thomas Collection...
...Grenfell has given up his time, since he went into the Newfoundland region, to establishing hospitals and improving the economic condition of the country. The number of deaths from tuberculosis, the most extensive disease, is being lessened by the establishment of "open air" hospitals, and glass-walled wards. Such progress has been made that in one of the hospitals the chief Marconi operator now has an X-ray machine. Dr. Grenfell has built several mills and machine shops which, even though operating at a loss financially, are giving the people many needed conveniences...
Last evening a member of the CRIMSON Board was walking by the queer looking tomb on Mt. Auburn street, when a youth, his features tumbling about in fear at his own boldness, stuck his head out of a stained-glass window and yelled feebly "E-yah!" Since the CRIMSON so disastrously put to rout Lampy's hobblers in last year's relay race and decisively defeated the funny fellows in baseball, the jokers have been humble as pie. Again, however, an evidence of life is seen, and the CRIMSON, believing such affrontery should be crushed in its infancy, desires...
...required to allow $450,000 for the book stacks, five stair ways from the basement to the upper floors, the partition between the quin-quennial room and the University archives room, the cabinets and bookcases, elevators, lighting fixtures, gas piping, book conveyors, pneumatic tubes, vacuum cleaning system, a leaded glass ceiling in the main reading-room, bronze grilles for windows in the special reading-room and delivery room and a clock in the main reading-room. In demolishing Gore Hall and foundations all the old materials except the bricks and granite are to be the property of the contractor. These...