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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...
President and Mrs. Lowell will give a reception at their house, 17 Quin street, to all members of the Senior class on Sunday afternoon, June 18, immediately after the Baccalaureate services...
...days ago we expatiated with pardonable pride upon the influence which our editorials of last year exerted upon the Board of Overseers in leading them to adopt English as the language of the Quin-quennial Catalogue instead of the semi-barbarous Latin which has been used heretofore. For a year, we inferred, the overseers had been screwing their courage to the sticking point, and it has at last stuck. But now. alas, comes the surprising intelligence that their recent resolution has been changed, the catalogue is to be printed in the language which for many years has puzzled our forefathers...
...meeting of the board of overseers yesterday, the recent vote of the board, recommending that the quin quennial catalogue be printed in English was re-considered and a motion to have it printed in English was lost by a vote of nine to seven...
...work on the quin-quennial catalogue will be done this year by Mr. Tillinghast of the library, as Mr. Sibley is incapacitated...