Word: oakes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...architects of the Harvard Union now have under consideration the treatment of the large living room on the south side of the building. Its floor dimensions are 100 feet by 40 feet and its height is about 35 feet. It is to be lined with an oak wainscot on all sides extending twenty feet up from the floor, something after the style of the Oxford college halls. The ends are to have an oak lining above the wainscot. There will be ample opportunity in the oak panels for memorials to graduates who have served the nation, or the University, also...
...principal room of the building, both architecturally and from the standpoint of the life of the club. This room will be forty feet wide by ninety feet long and will stretch up through all three floors to a roof of open timbers. There will be a high wainscot of oak around all the walls, which will be enriched by the seals and arms of the various College organizations, and at each end will be a large open fireplace with a carved stone mantle. The room will be furnished with settles, easy chairs, large and small tables, and writing desks...
Special efforts will be made next fall to increase the value of the furniture loan system by thoroughly overhauling the sets and putting them in perfect repair. When this has been done there will be fifty-one complete sets of oak furniture for which students may apply; and, in addition to these, partial sets now used by about twenty men will be offered. Each lot of furniture is sufficient for a study and bedroom. A rental of $7.50 for the year is charged, but of this sum $2.50 is refunded at the end of the term, provided that the pieces...
...received from France by Professor de Sumichrast. In full relief on the face of the medal is the head of a girl in classic head-dress and wreathed with laurel, typifying the spirit of the French Republic. On the back is a scroll bearing the date 1900, surrounded by oak, laurel and Egyptian palm leaves. "University Harvard Medaile Pasteur" is inscribed about the scroll. The medal is two and one-half inches in diameter and contains five hundred Frances's worth of gold. It is exceedingly well wrought and designed, and is the work of Alphonse Desaide, a noted Parisian...
Length over all, 51 feet; beam, 7 feet 9 inches; square stern; timbers and frames of selected white oak, planked with white cedar in two thicknesses, the inner layer 1-2 inch, outer planking 5-8 inch; copper-fastened and riveted through timbers; garboards and upper strake of white oak; stern and planksheer of selected teak; decks laid in narrow strips of white pine; coaming for cockpit of quartered oak. In the after end of the forward cockpit is a bulkhead, forward of the boller bulkhead, in which is placed the steering wheel, this space is the full width...