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...various officials present soon divided on the method of bettering the present dangerous conditions and sided on one hand with the University's suggestion to remove the subway rotunda from the centre of the square and to prohibit the stopping for loading and unloading of all buses. Another group supported the Boston Elevated Company in its desire to remove the taxi stands from the space around the rotunda platform so that the company's busses could stop at the platform...
...former dining room of the Union is now filled with six long tables and 17 small ones, the old Living Room houses 27 of the old Freshman dormitory tables, and the rotunda, where smoking is allowed, contains 20. In order to accomodate the Freshman Class, the East hallway was added to the kitchen, counters from which helpings are served put in, and two endless chain dumbwaiters installed to carry trays of dishes down to the basement, where they are put on belts and run through spraying machines, and steam chambers...
...convicts ran out into the rotunda, shooting down a guard as they ran, firing shots at the warden and his deputy. As the warden ran to sound the alarm they cornered a turnkey, took the keys to the buildings, headed for the main gate. Before they reached it the alarms began to go off and guards closed in on them. They swerved, rushed into a factory building, held up two guards, and keeping the guards and 30 other prisoners as hostages, locked themselves in the third floor of the building. There they prepared to fight...
...Originator of this famed tag for George Washington was Representative Henry ("Light Horse Harry") Lee of Virginia who used it during his funeral oration before the Senate and the House of Representatives. †In the Capitol rotunda hangs Painter John Trumbull's version of the surrender, with Washington in the background, Cornwallis absent...
...painting by John singer Sargent, made for the ceiling decorations of the rotunda of the Muscum of Fine Arts in Boston, and three preliminary drawings for the cartoon have been given to the School of Architecture by Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Fraucis Ormond...