Word: window
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...each of the old buildings and in Farnam much the same contrivance is to be adopted in each entry, the rope, however, being attached at the highest of the hallway. In the old chapel an iron ladder is to be permanently attached in the rear, reaching from the window of the room in the gable to the sill of the blind window about eight feet above the ground. These fire-escapes are to be placed in position soon." Meanwhile Harvard is left to the saving grace of the Cambridge fire department (vide Lampoon) and of hypothetical fire ladders stowed away...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Can not some better method of ventilating the chemical laboratory be found than the one now in use? The air is so vitiated with the numerous smells peculiar to a laboratory that it is almost impossible to breathe in the room. If any one raises a window he always interferes with the lamp of the man next to the window. It seems as if some way could be found by which this terrible nuisance could be abated to a great extent. As it is, seventy-five men have to suffer for fear one man's lamp will...
...number of men have their class photographs already finished. Those who leave early orders will probably have the pleasure of seeing their pictures in a large frame in some shop window...
...them are furnished with taste and elegance, and some with great costliness. The rooms are in themselves cozy and inviting. The deep fire-place usually has queer little closets on each side, with glass doors. These, as may be readily seen, furnish great possibilities of decoration. The windows have the delicious oldfashioned window-seats, that are still more charming by being upholstered in the prevailing tint of the room, or else in brown leather, picked out in gold. If the pursuit of knowledge were ever delightful, to pursue it in one of these comfortable, roomy seats, with heavy and artistic...
Workmen have been making measurements of certain Memorial Hall windows, presumably in anticipation of the insertion of a new stained glass window...