Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...side and allowed the striker to gain home. The News aptly remarks, "it may be well enough to use such small grounds for practice, but when a championship game must be played in so small a place that three long hits into the field knock shingles out of the roof of a barn, and only count for one, or at the most, two bases, it is exasperating." Brown owes it to herself, as well as to other colleges, to procure more suitable grounds...
...upper central part of the front of the building are three tiers of windows which light the book room, giving the appearance to the outside of one large mullioned window with horizontal bars stopped at each end by carved bosses. The roof is to be covered with blue or black slate with copper ridge and hip mouldings. Immediately to the right of the wide flight of stone steps which leads to the central porch is a small staircase turret running to the top of the building and containing the stairs for the professors...
...long enough to reach the upper story. A fire, occurring in a building like Thayer during the night, would probably destroy life, thereby injuring Harvard more than the small expenditure necessary to sink a well and construct a reservoir. A large supply tank could be placed immediately under the roof of Thayer, or the tower of the chapel could be utilized to the extent of placing a cylindrical sheet iron tank in it. Such a reservoir would supply enough water for any immediate necessity in case of fire, while during the day the contents could be used for all purposes...
...upper rooms are for the most part left free; yet I have seen attic windows so strongly barred that escape was impossible. They looked onto the roof, and no doubt they had been thus blocked up in order to keep the undergraduates from passing from one set of chambers to another. Even where there are no bars, there is some danger from mere height, coupled with the absence of a second staircase. In my Oxford days I lodged in the first story, counting the ground-floor as one. Just beneath me, a man lived who one evening begged...
...places can be found are apprenticed to some trade. The design of the founder was to make practical men, hence classical training was neither enjoined nor forbidden in the will. The students, therefore, seem immature compared with those of New England universities. The principal building is fireproof; even the roof is built of slabs of marble. The stairs from bottom to top are self-supporting, without wood-work. This building is devoted wholly to the business of instruction, and the teachers are responsible for the good conduct of the pupils while under their care. When they pass from the recitation...