Word: sizings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Work on the proposed $ 1,500,000 enlargement of Langdell Hall will begin late this month or early in June, it was announced yesterday. The plans call for additions to Langdell Hall which will make the building approximately three times its present size and will give Harvard University a law school plant without a peer in the world...
...prestige of the Law School as an institution for the imparting of knowledge of law, there has never been any question. Now, finally, comes the much-needed enlargement of Langdell Hall which will provide the School with the one thing it lacked, a plant compatible with its size and rank...
...position in 1898, the library was in the old Gore Hall which stood on the site of the present Widener Library. The total number of volumes over which Mr. Lane then had charge was some 200,000. Under his supervision the library has grown to its present size, containing at present about 2,500,000 volumes and ranking as the third largest collection in the United States, being surpassed only by the Congressional Library at Washington, and the New York Public Library...
...library has prospered. From a mere 200,000 volumes it has grown to become one of the world's finest and largest libraries with a collection of some two and a half million books. It has been kept up-to-date, and its accessibility has grown with its size under the capable supervision of Mr. Lane. From the original Gore Hall the library has moved to the magnificence of Widener with its never-ending stacks, and Mr. Lane managed the intricate process of moving it without once letting the change interfere with the routine business...
...leathery snout craving forward for food was "the first vertebrate with a face of typical form." As hands and arms developed and were used for feeding, the need for a reaching, mobile mouth (most antique feature of the face) declined; and at the same time the brain increased in size. Thus man's face grew to take its present form.-Dr. H. H. Briggs of Asheville...