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...wandering gentleman-in-the-making took his girl slumming in the Ritz Saturday night only to have her spot Miss Joan Bennett standing on the stairway resplendent in white fox. Miss Bennett, accompanied by a friend entered a cab and swirled off down Arlington Street pursued by the slummers in their own car. The quarry alighted at the Copley...
...northwest side a dangerous fire hazard has been removed by the building of a fire escape. Formerly both stairways down were in the main part of the building, and people on the top of the retunda were in danger of being out off in case a fire had gotten a good start in the kitchen. Because of the fire escape it has been possible to take out the rear stairway, and in its place steel lockers have been placed for the inmates...
...addition of a new stairway and exit on the north side of Harvard, which will open into the quadrangle formed by Harvard, Lionel. Holden Chapel, and Hollis Hall, has long been regarded as the most pressing alteration on the University calendar. CRIMSON editorials, faculty committees, and other groups joined in urging that something be done to relieve the congestion, and lessening the time taken to clear the building...
Even more extensive additions were made to Sever Hall, across the Yard. To comply with public safety regulations, the stairway on the south, or Widener end of the building was made continuous from the first to the third floors, and an emergency exit was provided at the south end. At the north, or Memorial Church end, a new stairway for emergency use only was built, and a new, emergency exit was cut into the northeast corner of the building to serve the assembly room, Sever 11. Further an additional stairway from the third floor corridor to the fourth was constructed...
...stairs, and the old main stairway have been enclosed with steel and glass partitions which will act as smokescreens and will improve temperature conditions. Rooms 1 and 2 have already been redecorated and it is hoped that it will be possible to re-decorate all the class rooms in the building...