Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...below this laboratory in the basement and above on the second floor are two other laboratories corresponding to the first in size and shape. The second floor will also contain smaller lecture rooms and rooms belonging to Prof. Gooch and assistants. Ventilating shafts connect the various rooms with the roof and all vapors will find an easy exit. The building will be heated by steam from the college heating apparatus, but the steam pipes will not be arranged as radiators but will encircle the walls of each room. A large room in the tower is to be used...
Princeton's new base-ball cage is finished, and a short description of it may be of interest. The building is 140 feet long by 50 feet wide, 16 feet high at the sides and 26 at the highest point of the trusses, on which the roof is supported, or a mean height of 21 feet. There is afforded, therefore, an inclosed space of nearly 5,400 cubic yards. One end of the cage is doubly boarded to furnish a solid smooth surface for hand-ball practice. On the inside the ceiling is formed by wire netting, which extends...
...already in the hands of the University authorities. The building is to be erected back of, and will be connected with the north corner of the gymnasium. The material used in building will be brick and the structure will be well lighted, through large glass windows in the roof. The building is to be used as a fives court and base-ball cage but will not contain a swimming pool as has been rumored. One set of plans has already been drawn up but as these have not proved acceptable another set will soon be completed...
...marble roof of Girard College has been found to be decomposing and will soon be replaced...
...Francis Greenwood Peabody, Plummer professor. The service was opened by the spirited rendering by the choir of the anthem, "O be joyful in the Lord.' After the introductory exercises, the preacher announced his text as follows: "Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed. For I also am a man under authority, having under me soldiers: and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it." The thought...