Word: centralization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dubuque. Iowa, treasurer. The following vice-presidents were elected in the various divisions: New England, E. A. Harriman '88, of New Haven, Conn.; Eastern, H. L. Clark '87, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Southern, David Sentress, L.L.B. '99, of Memphis, Tenn.; South-western, H. A. Leekley'96, of Muskogee, Okla.; Central, P. W. Herrick '04, of Cleveland, Ohio; Western, A. C. Smith '87, of Omaha, Neb.; Pacific, William Thomas '73, of San Francisco, Cal.; and Foreign, J. H. Hyde '98, of Paris, France...
...columns of professors studies extending from the ground floor level to the under side of the third floor are entered only from the stack space. Two columns of them, each three studies wide, are reached by a stair well and elevator which rise from the central corridor on the ground floor...
Outside, the building is about 250 feet long by 200 wide, the front facing north, and the rear entrance being on Massachusetts avenue. The central light court is crossed from front to back by the memorial portion of the building. There are five different systems of floor levels, four of which serve the administrative part of the Library, and that part of it open to the public and to students generally. On the "ground floor" the only rooms for student use are the two large reading rooms for the elementary courses in history and economics, which are at the north...
...great reading room stretching along the entire front of the building, is the main centre for the majority of the students. To reach the second floor from the front entrance hall, one goes up the central staircase to the level of the Memorial Hall, and then follows either of the two flights which turn backward and upward towards the front of the building. To the left is a short corridor from which rise the stairs to the third story and at the end of which is a special reading room now used for periodicals. The stack level opens from...
...classical library, formerly in Harvard Hall, has been moved into the large room in the northeast corner of the third floor, which covers the whole building around the central court. Next is the French Library and then the Graduate School of Business Administration. On the south side is the Bureau for Municipal Research, government seminary rooms, and the German Library. Along the west side is Robert Gould Shaw's famous theatrical collection; then come the Mathematics Library, and study and seminary rooms for Economics. In the northwest corner of the top floor is the Child Memorial Library, (English). And along...