Word: darkly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...record of recent interests and activities in and concerning the University. The Phi Beta Kappa address by Mr. Rhodes, which commanded such close and pleased attention in Sanders Theatre last June, is preserved in its pages. Mr. Rhodes finds in the steadfastness, humility, and humanity of Lincoln during the dark days of our Civil War an example which may be of value to present European statesmen. The picture which he gives of Lincoln is intimate, kindly yet critical, and suffused with a genial humor. The address should receive a place in the row of classics numbered among previous Phi Beta...
...Dark Days After Antietam...
...head of the grand staircase. These are in special memory of Harry Elkins Widener in whose name the library was donated. The first of these is a Memorial Hall, finished in white Italian marble with a dome overhead, and the inner room, which is finished in dark wood, contains the famous Widener collection. There is a large fireplace at the end of this room above which is a portrait of Harry Elkins Widener. These rooms are well lighted by windows opening upon court-yards on both sides...
...racks which hold the sixty miles of shelves are all in place. Both are of pressed steel, covered with a dark grey enamel. There are sixteen floors of these cases, capable of holding 2,500,000 volumes. Work on them has ceased, and the shelves will be in place by the first of April. These main book cases are extremely open. They extend only seven and a half feet from the floor, so that every volume may be reached without a stand. Means for transporting the books to and from the shelves, and a numbering system, have been carefully arranged...
Fielding candidates for the University team will report Monday afternoon to continue the work of last fall. The University battery candidates are practicing in the Cage every day until dark. Among the new men J. A. Gilman '16 is showing an unusual amount of speed and promises to develop into one of the first string pitchers...