Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...some details remain to be settled, the general plans for the new CRIMSON building have been drawn up, and the structure will be ready for occupancy during the coming year. It will be erected on the east side of Plympton street a short distance from Massachusetts avenue occupying the ground now covered by Nos. 14 and 16. The lots owned by the CRIMSON have a frontage of 66 feet and a depth of 130 feet. The building will cover almost the entire space...
...bags, as well as four extra wheel-rims and two inner tubes for each car. The bodies of the machines will be gray, and on their sides will be painted "From Harvard University Students." The tops will be of khaki canvas, with a red cross on a white back-ground, and also the inscriptions "The American Red Cross" and "Neutrality-Humanity...
...each end of which a steel lattice-work tower for supporting wireless antenna is to be erected. These have not yet been erected, but will be in place in a few weeks. The building contains 25 rooms, for research and instruction work. Five of these rooms are under ground, and will be used as constant temperature rooms. One of these, about 32 by 44 feet area, is to contain a storage battery of 100,000 volts. This storage battery, which will be the highest voltage storage battery in the world, involves many new problems in its insulation and switching devices...
...building was designed by Professor E. J. A. Duquesne and Professor H. L. Warren, and recent modifications have been designed and supervised by Professor W. S. Burke and Mr. Beard. The main contractor was Mr. Willicut, Ground was broken for the building a little over a year ago, and since then the work has been pushed as much as possible in order to have it ready for use this spring...
...plan, in brief, was to assemble in certain of the small sections, into which the many Freshmen taking English A are divided, those who were taking the same courses in other courses than English, the purpose being to provide a common ground of interest in the topics to be assigned for theme-reading and writing...