Word: light
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...contractor is required to allow $450,000 for the book stacks, five stair ways from the basement to the upper floors, the partition between the quin-quennial room and the University archives room, the cabinets and bookcases, elevators, lighting fixtures, gas piping, book conveyors, pneumatic tubes, vacuum cleaning system, a leaded glass ceiling in the main reading-room, bronze grilles for windows in the special reading-room and delivery room and a clock in the main reading-room. In demolishing Gore Hall and foundations all the old materials except the bricks and granite are to be the property...
...marble work will also be a special contract. The corridor floor of the second story, the stairs, toilet rooms, and the walls and ceiling of the small side vestibule are to be of Rutland or other approved clear white marble, while all other marble work will be of light pink Tennessee marble. The granite work calls for risers and flat top of the lower portion of the cut stone base around the whole building. The sills of all exterior doors, the entrance steps with landings up to the portico floors, the steps and landing of the rear entrance...
...some respects Randall will be an improvement over Gore. The added width of the building has made it possible to secure a greater degree of compactness in the arrangement of books, and the necessity of distributing certain classes of books over two or three tiers has been eliminated. The light in the stacks is also much better than in Gore and reading at the stack tables may be done with much greater comfort...
...Pierian Sodality will give a concert before the Boston Architectural Club this evening at 8 o'clock. The program rendered will be composed for the most part of popular pieces and light classics. C. L. Callander '13 will be soloist...
...University Musical Clubs will give their first pop-concert of the year in the Dining Room of the Union this evening at 8.45 o'clock. The music will be chiefly of the light variety, including some of the new popular airs and college songs. Small tables will be placed about the room, and light refreshments will be served. The concert will be open to members of the Union only...