Word: rotch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since then two other buildings partially destroyed by fire, have seen new structures in their stead. Massachusetts Hall was badly burned in 1924 and required about $176,000 to replace it. Two years later the Rotch building, north of Langdell Hall, caught fire. It had been the Carey Athletic Building until Carey Cage was erected...
...largest benefactors are Edwin J. Cohn, Professor of Biological Chemistry, and Charles A. Janeway, Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics. They were awarded a total of $70,858 to continue their studies on blood. Cohn has been doing outstanding work in breaking blood into fractional parts, while Janeway has been doing the clinical work in conjunction with Cohn...
Does it feel warmer lately? It should, for according to John H. Conover, Abbott Lawrence Rotch Research Fellow at Blue Hills Observatory, the average winter temperature in New England has risen three and one-half degrees during the past 100 years...
Abbott L. Rotch built the institution in 1885, giving it to the University on his death in 1912. Its records can tell what the humidities in the area have been in any five-minute period since 1875, while another less detailed hand-written file goes back to 1892 for the New Bedford section. It was Blue Hill that recorded the highest wind velocity ever measured--271 m.p.h.--in April...
...University has given three reasons for tearing down the Rotch Building: the old commitment to the Law School, the unsuitability of an athletic building for laboratories, and the desire of the geology department to combine under one roof. Metallurgy will be bundled off to Vanserg next year, and Mining Geology will be housed in the Geological Museum, but no 13-inch concrete floor has yet been found for Professor Graton's precision micro-camera...