Word: gore
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...torn down, and in its place, a little south of the present site, to have a new building erected adequate to the growing needs of the Library. The much-talked-of New Library Reading Room would come on the northern side of this building. On the present site of Gore Hall, Mr. Moore proposes to have erected a new Fine Arts building provided for by the Fogg legacy. A communication between the Fine Arts building and the reading room of the library would throw open the art collections to men using the library, and also give students of the Fine...
...until the city of Cambridge allows electric light wires to be run under its streets the use of the reading room would be ended at sun down. If the old plan of having a new library reading room were pushed through, it would greatly relieve the pressure in Gore Hall by throwing open to shelf room what is now used for the reading room. This might serve to solve the question of the Library with less expense than the proposed scheme but then, of course, it would leave the Fine Arts department without its convenient access to the Library...
...which were formerly preserved in Harvard Hall. After the removal of the library from that building in 1841, this collection of trophies was transferred to a building in which the Panorama of Athens was exhibited and in the fire which followed, the inscription on the cross was obliterated. When Gore Hall was built the cross was hung on one of the walls and in December, 1877, when an addition was made to the library building, it was gilded and placed in its present position over the entrance...
...Library in Gore Hall is open Sundays during term-time from 1 o'clock till 5, for the use of members of the University only...
...Library in Gore Hall is open Sundays during term-time from 1 o'clock till 5, for the use of members of the University only...