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Progress in the building activities in the University during the academic year 1914-15 has been marked by the completion of two new buildings, the Widener Library and the Cruft Memorial Laboratory; and additions have been made to the University Museum and the Gray Herbarium in the Botanic Garden. The new Germanic Museum and the CRIMSON building on Plympton street are now under construction...
Section of Herbarium Remodeled...
...reconstruction of the central part of the Gray Herbarium, which was begun in 1912, was completed this spring. This section of the building includes, besides several rooms for special purposes, the main hall, a room of considerable size, provided with two steel and glass galleries and surrounded by a triple row of steel herbarium cases. This room, well lighted and equipped with furnishings highly perfected for its purposes, contains also a bronze relief of Dr. Gray by Saint Gaudens, several busts, and many portraits of distinguished botanists...
...following appointments were made: Clarence Erskine Kelley 1G., Assistant in Astronomy; Arthur Bliss Seymour, Assistant in the Cryptogamic Herbarium; James Royal Martin, Assistant in Physiology; Carl Ludwig Schrader, Instructor in Gymnastics, (re-appointed); Carl Christian Carstens, Lecturer on Social Ethics, (reappointed); Louis Adams Frothingham '93, Lecturer on State and City Government in Massachusetts, (reappointed); Edward Deshon Brandegee '81, Regent, (reappointed); Harold Eugene Bigelow '07, Research Fellow in Chemistry; Frederick Henderson Sterns 3G., Associate in Anthropology; Alexander Swanson Hegg. Assistant Secretary of the Graduate School of Medicine...
...long process of rebuilding the Gray Herbarium has been finished by the completion of the central room within the last few days. The original frame structure, erected in 1864 to house Dr. Gray's collection, has been entirely rebuilt in steel and concrete, so that it is now the best equipped and best building adapted for its purpose in the world...