Word: gores
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Groups of considerable size are the philosophers, the writers, the economists, the government majors, the scientist, and the historians. Ferry strives to have representatives of all interests people the Halls of Standish and Gore...
...Kefauver-for-President drive still centers in Tennessee, with clubs springing up on every other hill. Governor Gordon Browning and two of the state's Democratic Congressmen, J. Percy Priest and Albert Gore, are already out for him. Paper replicas of his political trademark, the Tennessee mountaineer's cap, have started drifting around the state, and Tennesseans are beginning to raise money to put the campaign on a national basis...
...John Shea--the man who nabbed the library's biggest book thief--doesn't depend on prayer to uncover missing or stolen books. As a matter of fact, he relies mainly on his 46 years of experience working in University libraries. He started in the old Gore Library as a coat checker, moved into the newly-built Widener as a book checker, became shortly thereafter Superintendent of the stacks in Widener, and in 1948 was appointed an officer of the University with the title of "The Superintendent of the Stack and the Harry Elkins Memorial Building of the Harvard College...
After the University had put up Widener Library and several of the "Freshman dormitories" like Smith and Gore Halls (now part of Kirkland House), the discovery was made that the existing heating plants--which amounted to nothing more than a separate furnace in every building--could not cope with the new heating demands. So, University officials opened negotiations in 1914 with the City of Cambridge for the use of surplus steam generated by the Boston Elevated power house, located where Eliot House now stands. On March 3, 1914 the Cambridge Board of Aldermen granted Harvard permission to construct a steam...
...with a potatoe." By 1816 the expanding collection of books and apparatus squeezed out the Commons to the newly-erected University Hall, and the whole second floor became the library, the old chapel downstairs became a recitation room, and the former Commons became a "mineralogical cabinet." But when the Gore Hall library was built, twenty-five years later, these two lower rooms were combined into a single large hall for Commencement dinners, and on the second floor a Physics Laboratory was established...