Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frosh Crimson Key campus tour, you should know that renovations to this library come with some major strings attached. Take, for instance, the stipulations that "not a brick, stone, or piece of mortar [could] be changed" on the completed building, and that no structures could be erected in the light courts at the center of the building. How, you ask, has the crafty Harvard administration managed to side step these restrictions. A library communications officer, allows that both of these provisions are being broken--but with "the blessing of the Widener family...
...time of Widener's construction, book preservation theory was about as watertight as the ship that sank old Harry. Even the most knowledgeable authorities thought that sunlight and fresh air kept old tomes looking new--hence the light courts. But half a century later, enlightened book preservationists sounded the alarm. Since little could be done under Mrs. Widener's guidelines, the family agreed to waive the ban on construction in the 1960s, and minor changes were made...
...bounds of Mrs. Widener's original plans, and the Wideners again told the University to "do what you need to do to preserve the collection," according to the communications officer. According to the WSR Web site, this includes "an upgrade of the heating, ventilation, air conditioning, humidity control, electrical, lighting, fire suppression and security systems," as well as additional offices and reading rooms in the previously useless light courts. And it's no coincidence that one of the main project goals for Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, the architectural firm handling the renovation, is "preserving the historic character of exterior and interior...
...school's concrete buildings to the other. A Korean-speaking contingent sits apart from the chaos, over on the east side of the buildings; the studious head home straight away; the punks take over the bench by the school's orange front doors. Except for Ramon, a light-skinned African-American, they are all white...
...came out trying to shoot a lot," sophomore two-meter man Sean Cheng said. "Coach told us not to run set plays and just light it up from the field tonight, so that's what...