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...FIREPROOF DORMITORY, THE DUNSTER.- Now is the time to engage rooms. Apply to Charles W. Sever, University Bookstore...
...conflagration, calling on the alumni and friends of the university for aid, and appointing a committee to organize and raise funds. The faculty of the university has sent out circular letters to the alumni, detailing the fire losses, and pointing out the need of the construction of separate fireproof buildings to replace the library, the rotunda and its wings, and the law school. Letters of sympathy have been received from President Cleveland, Justice Brown of the Supreme Court, and Bishop Keane of the Catholic University...
...building will be divided by unbroken fireproof partitions into three sections, each with its separate entrance, halls and stairways. There will be accommodations for forty-four boys in twenty-two suites, each extending the full depth of the building, and comprising a 15x12 foot study and two bedrooms 11x81/2 feet. All studies will be at the front of the building, facing the west and commanding the view across the school grounds. There will be another suite for the resident instructor, and still another which will de used as a social room. The interior finish will be of whitewood...
...semi-circular part of the building has a single story reaching above the rest of the building. It will be used for a lecture room and will seat more than five hundred people. The structure will be absolutely fireproof. The partition walls are of brick and of hollow terra cotta tiles, while the columns, girders, and trusses are of iron, the columns surrounded by terra cotta tiles...
...last three months. This dormitory will be the smallest of the four as it will accommodate but fifty students, the rooms will be for students of moderate means and will be rented for as low as $2.00 a week. The stairs and halls of the building will be fireproof. The building will cost $50,000, and its construction will be begun at once...