Word: planted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Library which is under construction will be completed on or about December 1. The tunnel will carry the steam heating pipes from the boilers in the basement of Sever Hall all along the back of the Library and into the side which faces Weld Hall. When the central heating plant scheme is adopted, the process will be reversed and the tunnel used to conduct heat into Sever Hall...
...Dyke street runs a two-story tunnel, topped by an open facade and from this branch out on either side the wards and out-buildings. The greatest pains have been taken in planning the details of the hospital and it is believed that from the standpoint of efficiency the plant is not excelled in this country or in Europe...
...Since that time its field of activity and its output have grown steadily. In 1830 its present large building was erected, which makes it the most self-contained press in the world, for all the paper, type, and even the glue and ink used are made within the plant...
...output of the Press, explained Dr. Osler, is varied. The Bible, hymnals, and prayer books, which require the services of about half of the plant, are the greatest source of profit. These earnings are used to make up the deficit incurred by the publication of special books on research and the classics, which are issued, not for the financial considerations, but for the advancement of learning...
While the lecturer is best known as a great physician, he has always taken a deep and active interest in the Oxford Press which was founded in the fifteenth century and has grown to be an enormous plant with its own type-foundries and paper-mills. Lantern slides will aid in the description of the Press. The lecture is given by invitation of the Syndics of the Harvard University Press and will be open to the public although a few seats will be reserved