Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...good old custom of wearing caps and gowns deserves the immediate attention of Seniors. The process of measuring for the gowns and making them is under way against that red letter day in a man's four years of College when he claps on his mortar board, gathers his scholastic robe about him and strides forth into the sunlight of the Yard...
When, in 1874, Memorial Hall was fitted up as a dining hall, the kitchens and serving rooms were established in the basement; and a ceiling made of mortar on wooden laths was placed on the underside of the wooden floor-timbers of the hall itself. The apparatus installed worked well and safely for several years; but one day a huge pot of melted fat took fire on one of the ranges; and immediately the kitchens were filled with hot smoke, which soon rushed through the ventilating fine and heated it to a dangerous degree. The city fire department quickly extinguished...
...within a few days the award will be made. As soon as the contract is let the contractor is expected to begin the work. This will include the demolition of the present Gore Hall, the excavation, concrete foundations, stone and brick work, cut stone, fire and damp-proofing, cement, mortar and concrete and structural metal and miscellaneous iron-work, lumber and carpenter work, plaster, painting and glazing, rough hardware, marble and tile work, cement floors and pavements, plumbing, heating and ventilating...
...might accost another and spend that enjoyable hour of chat of two travellers thrown together by the fortunes of the road during the wait for a train on a remote station platform. To a limited extent (a very limited extent) the Union has fulfilled this purpose. But bricks and mortar will not shut out the prevailing community atmosphere from a small precinct sacred to free-and-easy democracy, and, rightly or wrongly, Cambridge is not a back-slapping community. There are excellent things which it misses thereby, but such is, apparently, the unalterable case...