Word: ices
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...provided with electric lights and hot and cold running water. The three lower floors each contains a ward of ten beds, a private bedroom, an isolation room, a lavatory, and a room for the nurse on duty. Each ward also has a serving room provided with an ice chest, a steam table, and a gas stove, and is connected by telephone with the other wards and the office of the infirmary. The wards have southerly, easterly, and westerly exposures. On the fourth story there are seven bedrooms for nurses. The only direct communication between the four floors is an exterior...
...artesian well which was driven at Memorial Hall a year ago is working very satisfactorily. The pumps, run by electricity generated in the building, supply about 75 gallons of water a minute. This is used for cooling the ammonia coils of the ice plant, for washing, and for the steam boilers. The well water cannot be used for drinking because of the presence of alkali in it, and water from Fresh Pond is still obtained for this purpose...
...during the past week has favored the work of the University rowing squad, which on last Tuesday was able to go out on the river for the first time this year. Since then three crews have been sent out each day in barges, and, although somewhat hampered by the ice, practice in short stretches has been obtained. For the last two days Coach Wray has followed the crews on the river. As yet no definite graded crews have been made, but it is hoped that if the weather continues warm it will be possible to use the shells next week...
...illustrated by many unique pictures of salmon jumping over falls, and of the caribou and bear of the northern latitudes. He showed several slides of seal-hunting, scenes of winter travel by dog-team, and icebergs, towering far above his ship. He told how those great bulks of ice, apparently so strong, may collapse with a crash, broken to pieces by the unequal expansion of the melting ice within its crevices...
Yesterday afternoon the river in front of the University boathouse was for the first time sufficiently clear of ice to allow the eight-oar shells to go out. Accordingly, three trial-eights were sent out for a few short stretches in front of the boathouse. No coaches followed the crews...