Word: fireproofed
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...comfort of the occupants will be greatly increased by having a small vestibule connecting the study with the main hall. The rooms are to be provided with open fireplaces and handsome hard wood mantels. The building will contain in all 52 rooms, accommodating 96 men, and will be fireproof throughout, the floors being supported by iron beams. No pains have been spared to make it one of the finest dormistorie in the country...
...year. A new laboratory for organic chemistry was built on the third floor, and the large room formerly occupied by the mineralogical cabinet on the second floor was converted into a lecture room seating about 500 persons. The principal fault of the building is that it is not wholly fireproof...
...stated on behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt that the building would be of stone and fireproof, and equipped with everything possible for the comfort and health of students. They have selected for their architect Mr. C. C. Haight of New York. The new structure will necessitate the removal of Old South College, and when finished will be the largest and finest building on the college grounds, and will nearly complete the enclosure of the quadrangle...
...work on the new fireproof building to be used for storing photographic negatives and for the library, is progressing rapidly...
...several months men have been at work rebuilding the top room of the mineralogical museum in Boylston Hall for a new laboratory for organic chemistry. The new room will be fireproof and will have all the latest improvements. The desks are tile topped and each one will be fitted with water and with a vacuum pump. There are enough of these to accomodate 32 men comfortably, and a good many more at a stretch. Nine large hoods, heated at the top with steam radiators, are built into the north wall. The eastern end of the room is divided into three...