Word: books
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Translations of Heine and Der Zwerg Nase are ready in the book room...
...three feet by one-hundred and fifty-six feet. The dimensions of the west stack are forty-seven feet by forty-four feet, with a capacity of two-hundred and fifty-four thousand volumes. The south stack is forty-two by forty-three feet and has six floors; the book-capacity is a good deal smaller than that of the west stack-it is one hundred and fifty thousand volumes-owing to encroachments by the reading room. Both stacks have a large number of large bay windows, furnishing excellent reading alcoves for special study. The general reading-room...
...reading-room for periodicals is next to the general reading-room; it is fifty-five feet by twenty-one, and has the same light advantages as the larger reading-room. Beneath the high side windows are book-cases with a capacity of six thousand seven hundred and fifty volumes...
Directly over the cataloguing room is the President White Historical Library room, sixty-six feet by twenty-seven; the room itself is two stories high and has a book capacity of forty thousand volumes. Adjoining the White Library room on the two stories are four large seminary rooms, and these, together with the seminary rooms in the basement below the cataloguing room, make the total number of seminary rooms seven, with an average size of twenty by thirty feet...
...exceptions, these answers have been in favor of the petition, and the negative answers are, we think, the result of two mistaken ideas: either that the introduction of electric lights would render the danger of fire possible, or that their introduction would necessarily do away with the present reserve book system...