Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Stewart Douglas Robinson '10, of New York City, was killed early Sunday morning by a fall from a sixth-story window in Hampden Hall to the cement pavement below. He had been sleeping alone in the bedroom and how he reached the window is unknown...
...meeting of the Corporation yesterday, permission was granted to the Athletic Association to build wooden stands in the Stadium for the Dartmouth game. They will be built at the open end of the Stadium and in front of the parapet below the cement seats, and will seat about 8,000 people. As the present capacity of the Stadium is about 27,000, these extra seats will bring the total to 35,000, or somewhat less than what it was for the Yale game last fall...
...plan of supporting the telescope in position is the same as that devised by Dr. Common, but changes have been made in method of observation and mechanism of control. Instead of being mounted on pedestals of cast iron, cement or masonry firmly built into the ground, as most large telescopes are, it rests on a great hollow cylinder immersed in a tank of water. A tank lined with thick walls of solid concrete was first sunk in the ground, and in this receptacle, ballasted with about 10 tons of iron at its lower end, floats the steel cylinder forming...
This reform plan must have the great element of permanency; for personal following is of no use unless it is permanent and organized. This organization has been held together thus far by patronage and feat; but now new cement must be found by making business men understand that the material prosperity of the country will go with good politics...
...cold weather. Practically all the steel work is finished. On the water or south side, both the upper and lower balconies are completed and nothing remains to be done except to give the brick a final dressing after the exterior work of the entire building is finished. All the cement is laid for the terrace on the north side...