Word: steamed
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...basement is all the machinery. This consists of a self-operating pump, a boiler and a fan. This latter mixes the cool air with steam and thus provides the room with a moist atmosphere. This fan is called a "Sturtevant blower." There is a duplicate one in Technology. The boiler is of about eight horse power and sixty pounds...
...waiter, running up from the bath-rooms on the first floor, by means of which clothing can be raised or lowered to the different floors. A large revolving fan is fixed in the basement, by which air, either hot or cold, is conducted through the building, there being no steam pipes. The plumbing, which has been done by a Cambridgeport firm, is an admirable piece of work. The water in the rowing tank has been allowed to run out and at present it stands empty...
...conclusion the speaker read extracts from the recent debate in congress, and declared that electrical appliances like the steam engine even, are not perfect but are improving rapidly and will soon come into universal...
...finest thing of its kind in America. The workmanship, conveniences and design are excellent. The two bath rooms are fully as good. if not better, than any others in Cambridge. The two piazzas will afford lounging room for hundreds of students. The large dressing room is heated with steam and furnished with two hundred large lockers which could easily be used by two persons each in case of need. The whole building is well lighted and may be well ventilated-by no means a trivial matter in a boat house. There is any amount of room for the storage...
...facilities for anything else; but Mr. Weld '60, has built and equipped a boat house such as has never been seen at Harvard before. There have been enough boats built to float fifty to seventy men at one time and there are two hundred lockers, two bath-rooms, a steam heated meeting room and space for an unlimited number of private boats. A fee of five dollars will be charged to each undergraduate to join the club and one dollar a year for the use of a locker. The undergraduates ought to take hold and make the thing a success...