Word: oils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...coal enough to last us for at least two months and by that time the strike will undoubtedly be settled," said Mr. Burke. "At the Medical School they are not quite so well off and as their coal supply is very short, they will probably have to start using oil within the next few days. The University is very fortunate inasmuch as this fall it displaced 16,000 tons of bituminous coal with oil...
...Fogg Art Museum there is a unique and little-known display of drawings, diagrams, paintings in oil and water color, designs and photographs, all of which have been collected and given to the Museum by Denman W. Ross '75. The purpose of this interesting collection is to demonstrate the theories of design, composition, and color, and they are much used by Professor A. Pope '01 in his fine arts courses...
...School were begun in earnest. In this work, Pierce Hall, which will be the headquarters, containing most of the offices, class rooms and drafting rooms, has been extensively changed. Partitions out in by the Navy have all been torn down and the whole building rewired and repainted. A modern oil-burning plant has been substituted for the old coal-consuming system. This serves the double purpose of furnishing power for the school as well as light and heat for several of the neighboring buildings...
...buildings which are now using oil as fuel, such as the Medical School, the Stillman Infirmary, Memorial Hall, the Union and Pierce Hall, will of course be in no way affected. Randolph Hall, Apthorp House and the Freshman dormitories get their heat from the Boston Elevated plant, which in turn gets its coal from the Nova Scotia fields, a district not affected by the strike. The outlying buildings of the University, such as the Observatory, which uses soft coal entirely, fortunately have their full supply in the bins...
...Fuel oil burning equipment is being installed by the University under the boilers at the Stillman Infirmary, the Union and the Medical School. It is estimated that a very appreciable saving will result from this installation. During the summer similar changes were made in the heating plants at Pierce Hall and Memorial Hall...