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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...YALE.The new library at Yale embodies many improvements over the old library, and contains some architectural features new to the college. The most important innovations are as follows...
...very bad one for a library where books were to be well cared for. Those in the upper part of the room were inaccessible on account of the number of stairs to be climbed and at the same time were injured by the great heat. The scheme of the new library is radically different. The structure is divided into seperate lofts about sixteen feet in height. Bookcases, from seven to eight feet high, cover the floors in every direction, saving only the necessary space for passages to reach them. Above the tops of the cases the walls are pierced with...
CORNELL.The new library building now being erected at Cornell will be the finest building of the kind in America. It will stand on the very summit of the hill and will be the most conspicuous object on the campus. The first story will be of Michigan red stone, and the entire upper part of Ohio white stone. The main building will be in the form of a cross with a tower twenty feet square and one hundred and seventy-two feet high at the end of the arms. In the tower will be placed the university clock and chimes...
...Sanford of the New York firm of Cavanagh, Sandford and Co. will be in Boston today at the Adams House with a full line of samples for Suiting, Cassimeres, Overcoatings, and c. Would be pleased to have you call and examine our samples...
...Perego and Co., of New York, are now showing at store 424 Harvard St, Hilton's block, a new and elegant line of men's wear mackintoshes, full dress and fancy vests, full dress suits, overcoats, silk jerseys, sweaters, bath robes, in fact, all kinds of athletic and sporting costumes and an entirely new foot ball suit...