Word: novels
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Mechanics Building, and will continue throughout next week. Plans for the exhibition were begun early in the winter, and the actual work of decorating was started Tuesday. Very elaborate preparations have been made, the grand hall being decorated to represent "The Hanging Gardens of Babylon," of which a novel feature will be the waterfall on either side. The main floor scene will be that of a tropical garden, while the basement will be decorated to give a green marble effect...
...Novel Presentation...
Perhaps the most novel feature of the building is the ventilating system. All the air supplied to the building is filtered through canvas bags to free it from dust particles. The hoods have straight outlets to the top and each separate flue has a special chimney-part, arranged so that air is drawn out constantly by the wind. The whole building is constructed with careful attention to the exclusion of dust and dirt, all the rooms having curved hospital bases where the walls meet the floor. The laboratories are lined with tile five-feet high...
...proposal that there should be co-operation between Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is not an entirely novel idea. But the fact that a suggestion of this sort has now come from President Maclaurin of Technology gives an added importance to the question. The gist of President Maclaurin's proposal, made in his annual report, is that there should be a pooling of facilities, with the maintenance of the present independence of the two institutions. The reasons back of this proposition are purely economic, for it is urged that each of the two schools has resources which...
...Boston Traveller, in which capacity he was so successful that at the end of a year he was appointed dramatic critic for the paper. Last year he was a prize-winner in a short-story contest conducted by one of the prominent magazines. He recently completed his first novel, entitled "Seven Keys to Baldpate," which is in the hands of the publishers now and will appear in January...