Word: roof
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...work on the new University buildings is being carried on as rapidly as the weather will allow. The walls of the Union are finished, the roof is slated, and the windows have recently been put in. The Infirmary and the Architectural Building are both nearing completion. Work on the outer and inner walls is ended and the iron girders for the floors are in place. The Infirmary will be heated by boilers in the basement of the structure itself. These have been put in and are being used during the cold weather in order that the interior work...
...athletic teams have decided to have all the training tables this spring at the same boardinghouse. This means that the class and University baseball, crew, and track teams, and in fact all teams, officially sanctioned by the University, that need training tables, will be brought together under one roof. In this way not only will all of them have the same food, but they will be brought into close contact with one another. Mr. Young has been engaged as caterer, but the house has not yet been decided upon...
...time has passed, various defects of the museum building have been brought to notice. The principal one is the lack of light, preventing any proper appreciation of the new paintings, which must be hung on the walls. Professor Moore recommends the construction of a new higher roof, and the removal of the present horizontal ceiling,--changes which would at once give sufficient light and improve the appearance of the building. Better facilities for unpacking and storing objects for which no permanent place has been arranged, would greatly enhance the convenience of this work...
...open weather of the winter thus far has been favorable to building operations, and most of the new buildings now being erected have made rapid progress within the last few weeks. The Union is most advanced. The slating of the roof is practically finished and the pavilion toward Harvard street is well under way. At the Architectural Building and the Stillman Infirmary the steel roof trusses are being placed. The outside masonry of both is nearly finished...
...University of California is to have a $2,000,000 gymnasium built of white marble, with a movable roof to permit indoor exercise in the open...