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...sort of porch is being erected outside the main entrance to the Agassiz Museum; it is to extend up to the third story, and probably the stairway will be transferred to it from the interior...
...Tower, where all the college archives are kept, and next to it the Founder's Tower, lately restored and furnished throughout by Sir Gilbert Scott, the mist renowned restorator in England. To the right of these towers stands the chapel, a beautiful specimen of architecture, with its fine entrance porch covered with ivy. The interior, although fine, is not striking; the elaborately carved screen dividing it into two parts spoiling the symmetry of the aisles, while the stained glass windows are not particularly rich, most of the original glass having been broken by the Roundheads during the parliamentary wars...
...newspaper says Boston has a colored man named Yale College. When he shall have a large family, imagine Mrs. College standing on the front porch and yelling to her offspring : "Now, see heah, Dartmouf, how many times mus' yo' po' mudder tell you to frow dat badeball 'way an' stay in de house an' larn your A, B, C's? Cornell, quit dabblin' in dat watah, an' come heah dis instant. An' you, Vassar, yo' de worse nigger in de pack. Take dat chewin' gum out ob yo' mouf, or I'll choke yo, till yo're brack...
...Over the porch and vestibule, and directly opposite the large reading room is the book room, a two-story room which is to be fitted with light iron shelves and racks, similar to those in Gore Hall. This room will give ample space for all the additions which may be made for many years to come. It measures 28 by 45 on each story, with a bay 13 by 19, while the upper story has two additional rooms, each 28 by 33. Communicating with the book room on the eastern side, is the professors' general room, 28 by 33, reached...
...size is 50 by 73, while the seats are placed on steps in a circular form. The smaller lecture rooms, however, have the old, familiar chairs with inches in front. At the westerly end of the main hall is the staircase hall, opposite which and communicating with the porch are three professors' private rooms or studies, each...