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While the contract for the Widener Memorial Library has not been let, Architect Horace Traumbaeur has the bids in hand and within a few days the award will be made. As soon as the contract is let the contractor is expected to begin the work. This will include the demolition of the present Gore Hall, the excavation, concrete foundations, stone and brick work, cut stone, fire and damp-proofing, cement, mortar and concrete and structural metal and miscellaneous iron-work, lumber and carpenter work, plaster, painting and glazing, rough hardware, marble and tile work, cement floors and pavements, plumbing, heating...
Certain work has been omitted from the contract, such as interior wood finish, wall decorations, diffusing sash (which will be used in the vestibule, the first story of the main hall, the Widener Room, Memorial Hall, and the hall in front of the main reading-room). The marble work will also be a special contract. The corridor floor of the second story, the stairs, toilet rooms, and the walls and ceiling of the small side vestibule are to be of Rutland or other approved clear white marble, while all other marble work will be of light pink Tennessee marble...
...doaden the sound. The elevator doors will be of metal and the others of wood. On the first floor there will be telephone booths for the use of patrons of the library, built in as part of the building. It may be said that the specifications for the contract call for the last word in library construction, and Harvard may well feel proud of its million-dollar library made possible through the munificence of Mrs George D. Widener of Philadelphia
...contract for the bridge is being executed by the Holbrook, Cabot & Rollns Company, a large bridge building concern of Boston...
...popular financial plan to raise the required funds amounting to $700,000 has been recommended by the Committee, and approved by the college authorities. This plan is based on the so-called Ticket Privilege contract, under which those subscribing have the right to apply for tickets to all games in the coliseum, paying therefor the regular price for the tickets and being assured seats in a reserved section, which is to be the best in the stand...