Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...matter. Owing to the complex construction of the Harvard square station it has been found extremely difficult to provide for such facilities. The commission, however, has ordered that "The Boston Elevated Railway Company install in the Harvard square station a single file escalator of the cleat type from the platform for cars from Mount Auburn to the street level near and under the eastern side of the street shelter." Passengers from North Cambridge will also be able to avail themselves of this escalator by using a stairway of 16 steps. While this does not fully meet the necessities...
...main entrance leads into a large hall, fashioned after the huge halls in the older English lodges. Two stories in height, it extends the entire length of the building. At the west end of this room there is a large raised platform, which will be used as the dining room. One of the features is the electric lighting equipment, which is so arranged that when this platform is pressed into service as a stage, the electric outlets give lighting effects equal to those employed in the majority of theatres. The main floor will be used as a lounge, a huge...
...Northfield Conferences and summer schools. The call for the gatherings is signed by William R. Moody, whose father, Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, established the conferences 32 years ago, three years after he had founded Northfield Seminary. There are really six conferences open to all conducted upon "the Northfield platform" which Mr. Moody defines with much emphasis in his invitation to the public...
...trend of Dean Briggs' and President Lowell's speeches was the same, with Dean Briggs adding that there was no danger in waiting, because shirts could be torn off in a great hurry, when necessity demanded it. In addition to the speakers, Bishop William Lawrence '71 sat on the platform...
...appearance of Mr. Norman Angell on the lecture platform at Harvard should call forth no less than a full house in Emerson D. The man who has treated a topic of such vital importance in this age of acute attention to questions of political science, with such a combination of inspired prophetic zeal and scientific accuracy that he has seen it translated into sixteen foreign tongues and run through four American editions in this short time, deserves the greatest attention. Pacifists or belligerents we may be, we cannot escape the question "Why is war?" Mr. Angell has received attention from...