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...exterior of the building is now entirely completed. In the interior the iron stairways and rough woodwork, consisting of floor beams and studs in the partitions, have been completed, and the lathing and rough plastering has been finished. All the decorative plaster and finished woodwork, however, is still to be put in. Dark pine floors, window and door casings, book cases, exhibition cases, tables and chairs, all of quartered oak, are yet to be made for the libraries and museums of the building. The oak desks and platforms for the lecture rooms will not be put in until some time...
...will be set up containing the official publications of the University, and the books that have been published by members of the Faculty of Arts, and Sciences and of the Faculty of Law, and by historians and statesmen who were graduates of Harvard, excluding all living graduates. A large plaster model of the Stadium and of the new Medical. School, including the proposed hospitals, will be sent, together with specimens of the Blaschka glass flowers, and photographs and transparencies from the Astronomical Observatory. The Medical School will be represented in part by specimens of the various apparatus used...
...their way to Cambridge. The first of these, from the Swiss National Museum at Zurich, is the figure of a Swiss Warrior of the sixteenth century from a fountain at Schaffhausen, and is the first installment of the gift of the Swiss government; the second is a plaster cast of the Tomb of Henry the Lion and his wife at Braunschweig, probably the finest sepulchral monument of the twelfth century, and is the gift of Mr. Arthur P. Schmidt, of Boston...
...plaster casts of German works of art which Professor Francke, during his trip in Europe, bought for the Germanic Museum, are now arriving at Cambridge in successive shipments. The collection includes copies of the Bernward Column from Hildesheim Cathedral, the Choir Screen of St.Michael's at Hildesheim, various figures from the tomb of Emperor Maximilian at luns-bruck, the Statue of Emperor Henry II in Bamberg Cathedral, and other reproductions from works of German mediaeval and renaissance art. The collection will occupy the entire side aisle of the museum...
...thirty-three feet wide and will be built on the south side of the present building. It will contain one large room to be used as a laboratory for elementary classes in chemistry, and also a basement for general use. The construction will be supported by brick piers. Cement plaster will be used on the outside so as to match the main building as much as possible. Work will begin in about ten days and the addition will be ready for occupancy at the opening of the University in the fall...