Word: south
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...skylight running the whole length, and around the room will be three galleries for stacking, with eight feet studding between each gallery. The width of the main part of the wing is about thirty-four feet, but the ground-floor is to be extended nineteen feet on the south side, and will run the length of the wing. This portion of the building will have a lean-to roof, and is to be divided into three rooms and a vestibule. The most easterly room, the dimensions of which are eighteen by twenty-six, is to be occupied by the librarian...
...Barker was born at South Hanson, Mass., and was 35 years old at the time of his death. He graduated at Brown University in 1861, and during the subsequent years of his life, except when sickness forbade, was engaged either in the work of teaching or in studies which had that work in view. From 1862 to 1866 he was an assistant professor of English studies at the U. S. Naval Academy. In 1867 - 68 he was an instructor in rhetoric at Brown University. He went to Europe in 1866, with the design of fitting himself for the work...
...worthy to be graced by his unrivalled talent for a life of indolent luxury, he pitched upon Brazil as the country affording the maximum of physical enjoyment with the least mental strain; so, with no companion but a Portuguese conversation-book, he set out for the great city of South America, - Rio de Janeiro...
...seemed fated to find no rest in South America, I have returned, and am prosecuting my search after happiness at present in the wild waste known as the Quadrangle, with slightly brighter prospects...
...circular of the architects, the strong sunlight - which is of much greater intensity than that generally prevailing in Europe, and to which the window, being on the south side of the Hall, is exposed - is directed to be constantly considered by competitors, in determining the tones of color to be employed in the construction of the window; and there is also great stress laid on the request to avoid ecclesiastical effects, as the general style of the window is to be essentially decorative...