Word: stacking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University of Pennsylvania hockey team has been formally organized with E. Perkins as manager and A. W. Stack-house as captain. The challenge from Brown University for a game during the Christmas holidays will probably be accepted...
During the past year the library of the Law School has been improved in many ways. During last summer the library stack was extended into the roof of Austin Hall, two new stories being thus added to it. By this improvement sufficient book room has been provided to allow for fifteen or twenty years' growth. The entire stack has also been provided with electric lights...
...British captured Louisburg in 1755, one of the soldiers obtained the cross and brought it back to Boston. Soon after it was given to the University and when Gore Hall was built in 1841 it was set in the wall of the old transept on the side where the stack was subsequently built...
...About 160,000 volumes are now in the stack, and the collections of Fine Arts and Alchaeology will soon be arranged and classified on the shelves. Six hundred volumes of bornd newspapers have been removed from Perkins Hall and placed on the Fenton roller shelves in the basement of the new stack. Owing to a necessary change of investment of the largest book fund, which had for a long time paid seven per cent there will probably be a serious reduction of income for the purchase of books the coming year...
During the vacation the stack has been enlarged to four tiers and furnished with electric lights, and a new recitation room has been provided...