Word: space
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...books are being moved in the order that they were taken out, into the new stacks which occupy the space for merly taken up by the old reading room. There are three floors of stacks in the new part of the library, the lower floor capable of holding nearly 100,000 volumes, and the upper two about 50,000 each. The lower floor will practicully be filled by the old books. All three of the floors are well supplied with electric lights so at no time will there be, as before, the slightest difficulty in seeing plainly in all parts...
...street, was visited by a number of the Faculty and the Board of Visitors Tuesday, and its appointments met with general commendation. It is designed to afford actual clinical practice for students in the veterinary course. The building was formerly the West End Railway stable, the big interior working space measuring 60x100 feet. There are smaller rooms for men who will stay all night, for pharmacy and other purposes, stalls for sick or injured horses, one of the best forges in Boston for horseshoeing and a fine case of instruments. Persons who feel that they cannot pay for veterinary attendance...
...stacking books in their proper places will be begun. There are three floors fitted for the reception of books. The lower floor has a capacity of 100,000 volumes, while the two upper ones will each contain 60,000 books. The stacks are arranged compactly, leaving, however, sufficient space between them for a comfortable passage-way. In the broad aisles near the windows, tables will be placed for the use of readers admitted to the stacks. The upper floor is especially well lighted by windows, but on the two lower floors electric lights will have to be used a greater...
...within recent years as regards both equipment and enrolment is a familiar fact to most Harvard men. The article on this subject in Saturday's CRIMSON showed clearly to what this growth was due, namely, the vigorous, progressive administration, which has not been baffled by the serious limitations of space, apparatus and general funds, but has pushed steadily on, making at every moment the largest possible use of what material was available, and ready always with plans for future development which awaited only the money necessary for carrying them...
...very sensitive Cramer dry-plate about four inches long and 1.5 inches wide, was put, film side up, into a wooden box, having a close-fitting sliding wooden cover. Upon the sensitive plate were laid two clear glass slips, less than one sixteenth of an inch thick. A space was left between them about four inches long and one half an inch deep. Across the glass slips to hold them in place was put a narrow bar of pine wood five-sixteenths of an inch thick. The wooden cover, three-sixteenths of an inch thick, was then pushed into place...