Word: weldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contracts for constructing the interior have not yet been signed. Parkhurst said, because officials haven't decided whether to weld or hold the building's framework. The cheapest method of construction, riveting, has been banned because of the noise, which according to Parkhurst would cause the resignation of every professor working in Widener...
...English took the start of the was much easier than we did," was the comment yesterday of Ray S. Cline, '39 recently appointed proctor in Weld Hall who studied at Balliol College, Oxford last year...
...could be wrought behind the fences. By an ingenious system of tunnels, Widener could be drained of every learned periodical this side of the Reading Room. Then, too, the workers in charge might run berserk in their lonely isolation behind the fences and, from force of habit, rear another Weld or Matthews...
Further changes came in the 1870's when President Eliot got under way. The construction of Thayer and Weld created a "mall" on the western side of University Hall. This mall idea had of course been used in Washington and at the University of Virginia, and another mall is now being made on the long axis between Gannett House and Mallinckrodt...
Thayer and Weld, by cutting off the mall, created a new "Yard" to the east of University Hall between the chapel and the library. Sever was built (1878-1880) to close this on the eastern side. Robinson and Emerson beyond its form an open-sided quadrangle on Quincy Street, which is of course the English scheme previously referred to. Then President Lowell, by building Lionel, Mower, Straus, Lehman, and the Wigglesworths, brought back the "fringe" system proposed in Bulfinch's day, so that now all of the various plan schemes are represented in the composite group on the college plot...