Word: planting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excursion to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where a tour through several textile mills will be made. One of the places visited will be an old mill which is soon to be made into a museum to exhibit old time methods of textile manufacturing, while another will be a modern plant in which the most modern production methods are employed...
That University Hall was once the largest heating plant in the University, that at present the College Yard is catacombed with an extensive series of heating funnels, eight feet wide and eight feet high, and that the Weeks Memorial Bridge was constructed with the principal idea in view of carrying heat conduits to the Business School, are among the interesting facts gathered in a recent survey of Harvard's heating system...
...Freshman Halls in 1914 marked the real beginning of central heating at the University. Because of the proximity of the power-producing unit of the Boston Elevated Railway Company, the obvious solution of the dormitory heating problem was a "hook-up" with the boiler room of the power plant. The way in which the concession was secured is one of the unwritten chapters of Harvard diplomacy, but the negotiations were successful and the economies in heating costs led the College authorities to consider at once ways and means for extending the service...
...corner of the new library, under Massachusetts Avenue, down Linden Street, under Mt. Auburn Street, and thence to the rear of the then new Gore Hall of the Freshman group. At that point, when the steam pipes were installed, connection was made with the system from the Elevated power plant. The heating service, even at that great distance, proved satisfactory and it was gradually extending until all the Yard buildings, except the house occupied by Professor Palmer, were connected with the central plant. Later the new Fogg Art Museum was brought into the system...
...kingdom averages about 1,700 inhabitants. They make and repair their own clothing, cook and serve their food, run a farm, a school, a library, a chapel, a laundry, a barber shop, a sewage system, a factory which turns out $650,000 worth of products a year, a power plant which, incidentally, supplies the "juice" used in the electric chair...