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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...consecutive courses; Chemistry, one course in descriptive Chemistry; Botany and Zoology, one half course in each; Geology, one elementary course and two kindred half courses, one in Physical Geography and the other in Meteorology. The President then shows that if the courses in this list are summed up they contain an amount of work at least twice as great as any undergraduate can perform in four years. The amount of instruction on the list may be roughly computed to be about one-eighth of the total amount of instruction offered by Harvard College; but this eighth meets the chief want...
...Corporation shall have accepted the improved portion, the work of arranging and stacking books in their proper places will be begun. There are three floors fitted for the reception of books. The lower floor has a capacity of 100,000 volumes, while the two upper ones will each contain 60,000 books. The stacks are arranged compactly, leaving, however, sufficient space between them for a comfortable passage-way. In the broad aisles near the windows, tables will be placed for the use of readers admitted to the stacks. The upper floor is especially well lighted by windows...
...building for architecture will contain lecture rooms, and, what is especially needed, large and well lighted drafting rooms. The engineering building will have first of all ample electrical and mechanical workshops. This is an important need, as students are still obliged to use the workshops of the Cambridge Manual Training School. The new building will also contain lecture rooms and drafting rooms...
...Physics Building will contain the departments of physics, geology, modern languages, and a couple of rooms for mathematics. The university building will contain the boiler house, the gymnasium, the dining hall, and the academic theatre. Plans are about to be begun for buildings to contain the departments of chemistry, metallurgy, the various engineering departments, and architecture...
...roof on and all the exterior work finished in about a week, if the weather holds good. Delays in the shipment of stone and iron have retarded the work very seriously, but it is expected to have the structure practically complete by next April. The building is to contain twelve recitation rooms of large size, a library, some minor recitation rooms and two offices. It will contain a large electrie elevator, the first to be placed on the campus...