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University of Pennsylvania will erect a dormitory at a cost of $125,000, which is to be the largest in the United States...
...bound volumes added to the University Library during the year, 10,885 were added to Gore Hall. 4027 to the Divinity School, 677 to the Law School and the rest scattered amongst the various departments. These accessions are the largest on record, and surpass the number of volumes added during the academic year 1886-87 by about 4,500 volumes. The present extent of the University Library is 343,318 bound volumes, and 276,682 pamphlets...
...made his experiments on falling bodies. The attitude of this tower is probably due to the insufficient foundations laid by the builders, which caused it to settle while in process of construction. Sienna, the other principal city of Tuscany, is noted mainly for its cathedral, planned to be the largest in the world. The present edifice is only the transept, the nave having been begun but never completed. The church contains the most beautiful pulpit in Italy, and the interior is splendidly ornamented...
...University Library added 16,468 volumes-the largest number on record. Laboratory and class-room libraries, also, were increased in number to ten, six of which were opened till ten o'clock in the evening. The President calls attention in view of the rapidly increasing number of books and the present state of the reading room, to the growing needs of the library, and strongly urges that Gore Hall be given over to stacks and a new reading-room be built fitted with electric lights so that students may use reference books in the evening. For this purpose, however...
...been shown by the way which the large classes of the past few years have been cramped for room. This year especially, it has been proved that the accommodations are utterly inadequate, and the need of more room has become too pressing to be disregarded. At present the largest room in Boylston is occupied by a collection of mineralogical specimens, one of the most valuable in the country, representing a large pecuniary value added to the labor of a life time. The remedy which Professor Cooke proposes is to have an addition built to the Agassiz Museum for the accommodation...