Word: kitchen
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...else Edward Goffe's house, which stood on the next lot, and before 1654 had been acquired by the College for use as a dormitory. It was called "Goffe's Colledge" and is described in the early College records as containing "five chambers, 18 studies, a kitchen, cellar, and 3 garrets." The position of the foundation wall to the west of Wadsworth House makes the identification of the building with the Goffe house the more probable. As the work of excavation progresses to the eastward, it is likely that the foundations of the original College building will be found...
...reversion to the plan under which the Hall was successfully conducted from 1875 to 1903, with allowance for the increase in the price of food since that time and for the cost of the improvements of 1904, when the Corporation advanced the money for the addition in which the kitchen and serving-room are located and for a renovation of the machinery...
...same time, while earning their way by work in the shops or on the farm. All of the 100 students in the school do manual work for five hours each day, the boys in the blacksmith shop, carpenter shop, or on the farm; the girls in the laundry, kitchen, or dairy. Last year the work of the students made the institute almost self-supporting. Like the George Junior Republic, after which it is modelled, it is a self-governing community, and only twice in its history has the faculty been obliged to decide in cases of discipline...
...building is three stories high and of brick construction with limestone trimmings, of the style known as Harvard brick, laid up with light joints and Flemish bonds. In the basement there is a machine room, supply rooms, a dining room and a kitchen. The second floor contains laboratories, offices, and a directors' room, and the third floor is made up of research rooms...
...article still more interesting. The illustrations are well chosen: the "old boys" who sat at the high table in the Hall where Lawton manoeuvred for the extra glass of port might not disdain this great hall; and the pictures of the old and new serving rooms and the new kitchen show more clearly than can words the great change that enables one now at any time happily to undertake that journey which in the old days only the curious dared, and they only at a considerable interval before a meal...