Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the plants that are open to inspection are those of C. F. Hathaway and Sons of Cambridge, the New England Structural Company of Everett, the Norton Company of Worcester, the Reed and Prince Manufacturing Company of Worcester, and the Wickwire Spencer Steel Corporation of Worcester. In each case the superintendent or some man in charge of the plant will conduct the men through the various departments, explaining the methods and processes in detail...
...used to capacity. This reflects an appreciation on the part of many College men of the value of regular exercise. The increasing number of men who use the various facilities for exercise indicates that some time in the future there will be a need for a large indoor plant that ought to include, among other things, basketball courts, two swimming pools, one for general swimming and for competition, and the other for instruction purposes, a hockey rink, a baseball cage large enough for a regulation diamond with an opportunity for infield practice during the winter season, indoor track facilities...
Although Commons has kitchen and serving facilities for two thousand five hundred men, it can accommodate only fifteen hundred men in the dining hall at one time. Therefore, the overhead expense for operating the plant is so great that, unless at least one thousand men are eating there regularly, the operating cost exceeds the receipts...
...These cooperative students are regularly paid workingmen for half their third year in the Engineering School. While one is off in some machine shop, electrical department, or plant akin to his professional line, another is spending two months of intensive class-room work. When these eight or nine weeks are finished, they shift positions, the man who had been in Cambridge taking up the industrial life where his alternate left off while the latter returns to college and engages in theoretical work. The change back and forth eliminates the need for the long vacation and consequently the men are only...
...past four weeks contractors have been at work night and day pumping water from the foundations of Claverly Hall. While attempting in July to connect Claverly Hall. Dunster Hall, Apley Court and Holyoke House to a central heating plant in Randolph Hall, the contractors met an unexpected obstacle in a steady flow of spring water. This subterranean stream was formerly the source of the water that passed through the ancient pump, once a traditional landmark in the Yard. When the Yard buildings were connected to a single heating plant, the same difficulty with this underground water was experienced. The present...