Word: stairways
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...Upper Dane and one in the Bursar's Office in Dane Hall; one on the third floor of the north entry of Matthews; one in the Janitor's Office in Massachusetts; one on the second floor in the north entry of both Hollis and Stoughton; one on each stairway between the second and third floors of Holworthy; one in the second-floor, hall of Foxcroft; one at the third floor on each stairway in Divinity; one in the hall on the first floor of the Divinity Hall Library: one in the second-floor hall of Gannett House...
...open fireplace, and space for ten beds if necessary. There is also a private room for severe cases, an isolating room for doubtful cases, and a linen room, pantry, and bath-rooms. There is no inside connection between the floors, and they are reached only by an outside iron stairway. A fire escape is on the south side of the building...
...changes that occurred in the outer appearance of the buildings and the Yard in those years; and the bits of history and description in the notes make real again the times with which most of us are acquainted only through cursory glances at the pictures in the stairway of Gore Hall...
...Peabody Museum has issued a report of the expedition sent out last year, under Mr. Gordon, to investigate and decipher the inscriptions on the Hieroglyphic Stairway at Copan, Central America. The expedition was absent nine months and succeeded in uncovering all the stairway that still remains in position. There were originally eighty-five steps in the flight, but now only fifteen remain. The work of the expedition consisted principally of replacing the fallen steps in their proper order so that the inscriptions carved on the front of the steps could be deciphered. Mr. Gordon was finally enabled to translate...
...well of the stairway in the addition affords excellent opportunity for repeating Foucault's celebrated experiment demonstrating the rotation of the earth, by means of swinging a long pendulum, the deflection of which from its plane shows the rotation of the earth. During the second half year this experiment will be tried...