Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...being constructed of buff Bedford limestone and is classic in design. In the central part will be the library, lighted by numerous windows placed between the columns, with the reading and lecture rooms adjacent on either side. The interior will be fireproof throughout and will be finished in quartered oak. As in the old building, the lecture rooms will be in the form of amphitheatres, with curved rows of seats rising in tiers from the lecturer's desk...
...large Ionic columns, between which there will be a light screen wall filled with windows. The central part will contain the library of the school, with the reading and lecture rooms adjacent on either side. The interior will be fireproof throughout and will be finished in quartered oak. As in the old building, the lecture rooms will be in the form of amphitheatres, with curved rows of seats rising in tiers from the lecturer's desk...
...elaborately designed chess table, presented to the Union by Mr. Isaac Leopold Rice of New York, has been placed recently in the Game Room. The table is of quartered oak with a solid base, supporting on two stout columns an oblong top. The playing board, bordered by a narrow strip of rosewood, is inlaid with black and white squares. The board is surrounded by 25 small fancy metal shields on which will be engraved the names of future winners of the University championship...
...connected by an esplanade of the same material as well as by surface and underground passages. Marble is used in the floors of the vestibules, but the other floors are of hard pine. The walls are of plaster, which will be painted, and are finished throughout in stained oak. The hot-water system is being used and both gas and electric lighting have been installed. The Power House, constructed of brick, and the Animal House, of plaster, are also connected by tunnels with the Physiology and Bacteriology Buildings respectively...
Yesterday a new settle of panelled oak was placed near the middle of the south wall of the Living Room of the Union. The settle is composed of two high-backed benches extending at right angles from the wall and facing each other. It was provided for partly by a gift of H. P. Arnold '52 and partly be the income of the fund given to the Union by the class...