Word: planting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...April number of the Harvard Engineering Journal has just been issued. Excepting a paper on "An Underground Limestone Quarry," and one on "Shearing Strength of Concrete Joints," all the leading articles are of interest to undergraduates outside of the field of engineering. The "Remarks on a College Lighting Plant" serves as a beginning for discussion of ways and means of improving the lighting service in the Harvard Yard and buildings nearby. The approximate way of figuring the financial gain must be regarded of course as only preliminary to a more detailed study, but suggests how such problems must be approached...
...contractors have been at work for three weeks on the land next to the power plant on Boylston street. Most of the time so far has been spent in clearing and leveling the ground. Yesterday morning a steam shovel was put in operation, and digging for the basement of Smith Hall was commenced. The men are also driving piles for the foundation of the big, ornamental iron fence that is to surround the dormitories. The concrete walls of the basement will be started as soon as the excavation has reached sufficient depth. The rich top soil which is being removed...
...evidence is not meager. A new Stadium Bridge, the Freshman Dormitories, the Germanic Museum, the Music Hall, not to speak of the Widener Library and the proposed Gymnasium, are evidences of such a development in the matter of plant; the recent change in admission requirements, and the proposed system of general examinations denote new standards in the direction of scholarship; the Press Club, the Legal Aid Bureau, and the Navy Project, may be taken as indicative of a development which is bringing into closer touch the University and the community...
...editors turn their attention to other subjects. We have, in turn, a really practical and stimulating article on the "New Science" by Dr. Henry Smith Williams, some rather lifeless articles by undergraduates on academic subjects, and a sensible argument by Mr. Parsons for a central heating and power plant...
Unfortunately, there is no immediate prospect of a special building for the Press, so that the plant in the basement of University Hall will have to be extended to occupy the rest of the basement. It is not intended that this shall be a commercial publishing establishment, as the University Presses of Yale and Chicago are tending to become, but rather a centre of dissemination for scholarly works...