Word: goring
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...more alcoves in Gore Hall have been cleared during the summer...
SEVER HALL is to be situated about midway between University Hall and Quincy Street, so that these two buildings will form, with Appleton Chapel and Gore Hall, a small quadrangle. The base dimensions of the building will be 177 feet in length by 75 in width, while 50 feet is the height from the ground to the top cornice, above which the roof rises 30 feet more. The material to be used in building will be brick; each brick being 12 X 4 X 2 5/16 inches, manufactured especially for this building. The bricks out of which the carved work...
...book; but when an instructor puts every good edition on the reference shelves, many who wish to do work outside are greatly inconvenienced. Students should not be forced to work in the Library; there are many opportunities for working in one's own room, when going over to Gore Hall would be absurd. Again, many of the reserved books are such as one reads in spare moments in the evening; if a book can be taken out for a length of time there are a hundred chances to finish it. It is often impossible to know in the afternoon whether...
...burden upon itself. It already has a fine collection of magazines, which are much read, and some daily papers, which are seldom seen, as they are kept on file in a closet; these would go far towards making up the number of periodicals needed. The old delivery-room in Gore Hall is nearly empty, and could easily be turned into a reading-room, to which students could have access whether the Library was open or not. It could not be lighted in the evening; but lack of money prevents the present reading-room from being used at that hour...
GROUND between Appleton Chapel and Gore Hall has been marked off for the excavation of the foundations for Sever Hall. The building will stand so far back from University Hall that one of the houses on Quincy. Street will have to be removed to give place...