Word: tons
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ton refrigerating machines, which will provide the ice, are to be located in a building entirely separate from the arena, thus preventing the dampness of atmosphere so objectionable in most artificial rinks. The management has taken special pains to make the air pure and healthful at all times and by a unique process it will be changed every ten minutes...
...Union this evening at 8 o'clock. G. P. Gardner, Jr., '10 will preside and will lead the cheering, assisted by C. L. Lanigan '10. J. S. Reed '10 will lead the singing. Mr. W. F. Garcelon L. '95, Graduate Treasurer of the Athletic Association, will also be present ton give a short address. The four new songs which have been selected by the song committee, and which will be practiced, are: "Score," by J. S. Reed '10, with music by J. W. Adams '10; "Harvardiana." by S. B. Steel '11, with music by R. G. William '11; "Harvard...
...expected that the building will be up and the rink ready for use on January 1. If possible, arrangements will be made by the Harvard Athletic Association by which the University hockey team may use the rink for at least the more important home games. Two seventy-five ton refrigerating machines will supply ice under all conditions of weather. The building will have a seating capacity of five thousand...
...telescope, the largest of its kind in the world, is now being installed in the Observatory. Its mirror, which was purchased from the estate of Dr. A. A. Common of Ealing, England, in 1904, is five inches thick, has a diameter of five feet, and weighs over half a ton. Three months of continuous work were spent in shaping the mirror from the rough disc, and 410,000 strokes of the polishing machine were needed to give it the required smoothness. The preparation of the site was begun September 28, 1904, and the remounting has since gone on slowly, until...
...About a ton of magazines and periodicals were collected, most of which came from the Union. These are to be distributed among hospitals, reading rooms and old people's homes in this vicinity. The text books, of which 150 were received, will be placed on the shelves of the Loan Library in Phillips Brooks House. which now contains about 1000 volumes...