Word: mortaring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William J. Fox, construction engineer for the Supervisors, testified that school buildings were "covered with ornaments stuck on with chewing gum." The Los Angeles Examiner said that it had analyzed mortar used in school buildings, found it one-third to one-half as strong as required by law. Another engineer, W. M. Bostock, was of the opinion that "no moral or legal responsibility is to be fixed. At the worst the builders were greedy and wanted a little too much building for their money...
...voiced its dissatisfaction with Stillman Infirmary, and has indicated the reforms that are necessary to that antedated institution. It is hardly possible, therefore, that the medical service rendered by the University will be satisfactory until conditions at Stillman are alleviated. Until the advent of another deluge of gold and mortar, however, much can be accomplished in improving the extra-infirmary branches of the University medical service. There are at present four physicians associated with Harvard on a part time basis, all of whom are inclined to adopt a laissez-faire attitude to their moderately ill patients and to those...
...House Plan once an abstraction is now a reality in brick and mortar and circumstances are at work moulding the "corporate personality" of every House from within while wind and weather and the long suffering ivy are giving the sanction of age to the naked glory without. It is inevitable and desirable that each House should develop its own individual tradition but it should not do so at the expense of any of its legitimate and important functions...
...University Hall, the central nucleus was more limited than it is at present. The number of regular attendants has grown. On a basis of the results observable at present, it may be concluded, interest in the Memorial Church has gone farther than a mere inspection of the brick and mortar, or a glimpse at the towering spire. A great church must arise from the undivided, unsollicited interest and support of a numerous and living congregation. It is in these respects that the Harvard Memorial Church is creating a distinguished history...
Taking a tiny silver trowel with a mahagony handle-made from furnishings in the old court chamber-President Hoover dabbed a butter pat of mortar on stone. Chief Justice Hughes heaped the trowel full. Mr. Thompson did likewise. Then a master mason scraped off their dabs, spread a skilful smear of his own while four workmen gently swung into place a three-and-one-half-ton block of Vermont marble inscribed "A. D. 1932." Within the cornerstone Mrs. William Howard Taft, whose late husband as Chief Justice was, more than any other man, personally responsible for the new building...