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...Tuesday, June 1 and 2, 1908. The Elizabethan stage used in the production of "Hamlet" by Mr. Forbes-Robertson in April, 1904, will be reconstructed. The stage will be a reproduction of the "Fortune Theatre" as it existed in London in Elizabethan times. To make this possible, all the ground-floor seats in Sanders Theatre will be removed, and the stage built out into the pit about 20 feet. By means of scenic devices and drops, the galleries and tiled roof of the Elizabethan theatre will be made to appear in circular form. The curtain used will be a "trayers...
...Reading Room at the head of the stairs, was taken from its pedestal and carried off. A second attempt to enter the Library was made Saturday night--according to the evidences, by a different set of thieves--but without success. Both attempts were made on one of the ground-floor windows...
Sanborn has removed his billiard and pool rooms on Harvard street two doors above to one of the large rooms on the ground-floor of the new building. The new rooms have been fitted up very comfortably, and every convenience is offered for the accommodation of the players...
Last week a thief climbed in at the window of a ground-floor room at the back of Weld, and stole clothing and other articles to the amount of about a hundred and fifty dollars. If this practice of stealing from floor rooms grows it will be a very hard matter to stop it, as there is hardly a ground floor room in college that could not be entered by even an inexpert thief. One way of preventing future theft is shown by the locality of this burglary. The back of Weld was undoubtedly chosen for operations on account...
...extreme easterly end of the ground-floor is a large lecture room 42 by 48, corresponding to one of the same dimensions in the westerly wing of the building. Coming back to the vestibule and going through the door at the northerly side, toward the rear of the building, the large hall is entered running nearly east and west, leading from one wing to the other, and furnishing communication between the large lecture rooms. This hall is lighted by a circular bay window at either end, and the effect of the hall is very much added to by a circular...