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...cure in this case, and a few thousand dollars expended now would save hundreds of thousands, not to mention lives of students, in the future. In the first place the lights in the halls should not be turned out at midnight, for the event of a fire a stairway without any light is as good as a hose without water. Furthermore, ladders, hose and better fire-escapes should be provided for each dormitory...
...passengers that a great deal of confusion can be avoided. The middle platform will be 25 feet wide and the two side platforms will be 12 feet wide with two exits on each side leading to the present subway; there will also be exits to the street. A wide stairway will lead from the entrance to the middle platform. Escalators will be used in addition to the stairways to facilitate the handling of large crowds...
...chief aim of the operations, the recovery of remains from the Hebrew period, was reached in the second and third years. The objects found in 1908 were mainly of the Greek and Roman periods, the most important being a marble statue (probably Angustus), a large altar, and an imposing stairway. Professor Lyon spent the summer of 1908 at Samaria, and his lecture this evening, will give an account of that year's work...
...original fund was used to furnish one of the alcoves in the Boston Public Library, to place one of the St. Gaudens lions on the stairway of that building, and to establish there a fund of $5000 for the purchase of books of a military or patriotic character. The residue has now been turned over to the Corporation with the request that $500 be used to establish a fund to be known as the fund of the twentieth Massachusetts regiment...
...collection arrived at the museum a few days ago and is now on exhibition in three classes as follows: 1. Upstairs, paintings by early Italian masters: on stairway, pictures by certain French masters, Velasquez, and other Spanish masters; on ground floor, paintings by Rombrandt and other Dutch masters. 2. Original Greek marbles. 3. Renaissance Italian marbles...