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Nathans also said the new hall will not have a room like the Union's rotunda...
Although there are meeting rooms in Loker Commons, "the strength of the rotunda is that you can just walk by" and see what's going on, Nathans said. In addition, the Freshman Dean's Office will no longer be able to use the large parlor B room on the Union's second floor...
...second exhibition, housed in the Widener Library rotunda, is titled "John Keats: Bright Star." It contains contemporary artwork by Irish artist Ross Wilson...
...Senate. Smoking has always been allowed on the Senate side of the Capitol, and members have always smoked behind the railing on the House floor. But this session, smokers light up without shame in hallways and other public haunts. Smoke wafts around the curving stone staircases and perfumes the Rotunda. In the House members' restaurant, the menu touts cigars alongside bean soup...
When the American history painter John Trumbull was paid $32,000 for the four scenes of the American Revolution, including the Declaration of Independence (1818), that adorn the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, a loud outcry arose against their cost. But does anyone alive today think it was wrong to spend public money on jump-starting the Library of Congress with Jefferson's 6,500 books or creating America's first monumental paintings of its own history? Was Franklin Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration, which gave jobs to numerous good American artists in the Depression years, a bad idea...