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...every winter remind us, much more forcibly than the heavy snow, of the need of a few more plank walks in the yard. It is at just this season of the year when the library is most in use. The pleasant weather and a nine stretch of brick or slate walks lures the unwary student on his way to the library into the delusion that walking is just as good elsewhere as at his own door. Taking this easy-going thoughtless view of the case, he leaves his rubbers in his room and in consequence reaches the library with...
...trees were standing. President Quincy planted most of the remainder; and it is to his fore sight that we owe our thanks every spring for the pleasant and grateful shade of our great elms. The paths are many of them simply old short cuts regularly laid out and the slate, brick and plank walks are of quite recent construction. Of the grounds of all the various colleges devoted to men, ours receives much more attention and care than any other and in summer presents a finer and neater appearance. At the present rate of improvement, if the college only gets...
...constructed to the eastward. As the vibrations from this source might endanger the success of delicate experiments, care will be taken to completely isolate this building from the main building and all shafting will be carried on isolated piers. The foundations are to be built of the best Somerville slate laid in cement. The foundations of all the piers carrying sensitive instruments, and the foundations of the central tower of the western wing, will be entirely independent of the other foundations. The entire basement, excepting the boiler, coal and engine rooms, but including both the floor and roof...
...tour in a northerly direction, towards College Hill, discloses the fact that our neighbor, Tufts College, has this summer become possessed of a new chapel. It is a picturesque structure, built of rough, slate-colored stone, and is set off by a medieval-looking tower after the style of an Italian campanile. Its general symmetry is, in the opinion of some, slightly marred by several excrescences with small spires, that project from the roof and produce a somewhat unpleasant effect upon the near spectator...
...central part of the front of the building are three tiers of windows which light the book room, giving the appearance to the outside of one large mullioned window with horizontal bars stopped at each end by carved bosses. The roof is to be covered with blue or black slate with copper ridge and hip mouldings. Immediately to the right of the wide flight of stone steps which leads to the central porch is a small staircase turret running to the top of the building and containing the stairs for the professors...