Word: windows
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Despite unfavorable weather conditions work on Emerson Hall, the new building for the Philosophical Department, has been progressing rapidly. The outside walls have been raised to the tops of the window-frames of the third story except at the western end of the building, where the main cornice has just been completed. This cornice is of limestone blocks, weighing from four to six tons each, which extend the entire thickness of the wall and jut out two feet beyond. The brick columns flanking the two entrances have been finished and all the limestone window-frames and trimmings are in position...
...were daubed with white paint, and the Superintendent's chair and lamp and the face of the clock also received a coat of paint. Broken eggs were left on the Superintendent's desk, and paint was spilled liberally about the floor. On one of the tables and on the window the words "Med. Fac." were scrawled in paint. Most of the damage was repaired before the Library opened in the morning...
...cannot be used a second time without pulling the entire length of the rope through a device which grips it tightly (preventing the descent from being too rapid). This would take at least ten minutes after the seat of the escape has been thrown back up to the window. Meanwhile the remaining occupant of the room would probably be suffocated or burned. As the wooden stairs would be the first thing to burn in a fire in any building, it seems only reasonable to demand a fire-escape for every occupant of a room. Yet reasonable as this...
...academic distinctions in college as an earnest of future services, is always of interest. An article by Professor Kuno Francke on "Emperor William's Gift to Harvard," is a reprint of his speech delivered at the opening exercises of the Germanic Museum, November 10. "From a Graduate's Window: Contrasts Pleasant or Otherwise," presents strikingly the in-adequacy of the salaries of Harvard professors of today and fifty years...
...candidates report for practice this afternoon. Watch Leavitt and Peirce's window for notice...