Word: court
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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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...
...room is a reference room, off of which is the delivery room and the card catalogue room. Behind the delivery desk a door opens into the stack portion of the building. The book stacks comprise eight stories of steel shelving extending nearly round three sides of the inner light court. Pneumatic tubes lead from the delivery room to various points on each of the stack floors, and cards calling for books are sent out to certain stations among the stacks where boys receive the demand slips from the tubes, find the books and put them on the dumb waiter which...
...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...
...Rhodes. He spoke a little of the finances of the country in 1864, and of the "debauch of flat money." He also dealt on Lincoln's unfriendly relations with Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, and the latter's withdrawal and subsequent appointment as Cheif Justice of the Supreme Court. And finally he considered Lincoln's high-minded plan of 1864: of paying to the slave states four million dollars for the giving up of their slaves, and the formation of peace. But there was no one else in the government fine enough to take the President's stand...
...observation train. Should the race be postponed to another date, the train will leave immediately after official notice to such effect has been made. Round trip tickets from Boston at $5.24 and Providence at $3.14 may be obtained in advance at City Ticket Office, corner of Washington and Court streets, Boston; South Station, Back Bay Station, Union Station, Providence; and Leavitt & Peirce's. No tickets will be sold on the day of the races if the limit has been reached...