Word: corking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Fountain pens are too great a convenience to be excluded from a library, but if used carelessly they permanently deface floors and tables, for ink-stains cannot be successfully removed from marble floors, cork carpets and polished...
From the rear of the entrance hall, a monumental staircase leads to the second floor which contains the main reading room. This room, accommodating 336 readers, is 192 feet by 40 feet and extends 43 feet to the roof. The flooring is of cork, and not only enables quiet walking, but is also very comfortable to the feet. The government, history, and economics reading rooms, which will contain most of the collections now in the history room in Harvard Hall, is on the ground floor...
...performance of the twenty-eighth annual production of the Cercle Francais will be given in Agassiz House, Radcliffe, this evening at 8 o'clock. The play to be presented is "Les Petites Godin," a humorous farce in three acts by Ordonneau and Chivot, dealing with the misfortunes of a cork manufacturer, Godin, who has three daughters whom he is very anxious to have successfully married before Fanny Bilbock, an American who has consented to marry him on the understanding that he has no children, finds out the deception. The three suitors for the daughters' hands and the arrival...
...Godin, a cork manufacturer, H. Scholle '18Juglar, an ex-adjutant of cuirassiers, C. G. Paulding '18Rebiffe, H. W. Salisbury '17Fanny Bilbock, Miss Margery BrownMadame Malechard, Miss Nanciebel RodgersCeleste, Godin's daughter, Miss Doris HalmanJeanne, Celeste's sister, Miss Marjorie WilliamsCesarine, Jeanne's sister, Miss Priscilla MayClapote, a maid, Miss Dorothy MoranVicomte de l'Estrapade, A. Shortt '17Prosper Malechard, H. D. Jordan '18Seraphin, T. Nelson '18Inspector, B. Snow '15Policeman, W. W. Sanders '17Passenger, J. R. Dos Passos '16Official, G. P. Slade '17Leon, P. A. Bedard '17Jules, R. Littell '18Felicien, C. W. Jenks '15Passenger, Miss Ruth Babso
...interior there will be adopted the latest ideas in library construction, cork floors being laid over concrete to doaden the sound. The elevator doors will be of metal and the others of wood. On the first floor there will be telephone booths for the use of patrons of the library, built in as part of the building. It may be said that the specifications for the contract call for the last word in library construction, and Harvard may well feel proud of its million-dollar library made possible through the munificence of Mrs George D. Widener of Philadelphia