Word: roof
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stable will be ventilated by a simple but efficient method which brings air into the stables at the horses heads and takes the foul air out through duets which empty high above the roof. The stalls are so arranged as to leave a feeding alley between them, making the handling of feed, water, etc., much simpler than any other arrangement and obviating the necessity of going into the stalls in order to feed the horses. The floor of the passageway will be of concrete but the stall floors will be constructed with cerosoted wood blocks. These have several advantages...
...loss was largely due to the delay in getting water on the blaze when a hydrant failed to work. Not until almost an hour after the alarm sounded did the firemen succeed in cutting through the roof and getting an effective stream on the blaze...
...trustees of the estate object to the use which the University is now making of the $5,500,000 already received by it, and maintain that the intention of Mr. McKay is being defeated by carrying on the engineering courses under the roof of Technology instead of in the buildings and under the sole direction of the University...
...former Yale athletes who have upheld the Blue on gridiron, track, diamond and river. The former Yale stars who assembled for the occasion represented nearly every state in the Union and constituted far and away the largest number of letter men of a single university ever collected under one roof. Captain Black's 1916 eleven, last fall's coaching staff and the Football Committee were the guests of honor...
...club here named Harvard. On days when it rains the students read books"; or the famous description of Artemus Ward that Harvard College was "pleasantly located in the bar-room of Parker's." Life in time may become as rigorous as it was when the snow filtered through the roof of Massachusetts Hall, ice was cracked for matutinal ablutions and beer and soggy biscuits were the breakfast food. The declining use of purchased literature perhaps means increasing dependence on the wonderful collection of books the University has made, and a general inclination to select the courses that...