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...takes the average man four minutes to get into a class, and four minutes to get out of it, due to a four-foot narrow stairway that allows passage for but one man at a time each way up and down. Eight minutes out of every hour are therefore spent moving an absurdly short distance of some twenty or thirty fect in a congestion comparable only to a New York subway station in a rush hour...
...Relief jobs undertaken in New York City, the remodeling and landscaping of the Brooklyn Museum. Because the Department of Buildings demanded bigger & better exits for a building through which pass 1,000,000 visitors a year, Relief labor was set to work last spring tearing down a useless monumental stairway, turning a badly designed auditorium into a new entrance hall and special exhibition rooms. Both were sufficiently advanced last week for museum authorities to mail out 5,000 invitations to a private view this week of the new rooms and the inauguration of a loan exhibition of Spanish Renaissance paintings...
...Widener Memorial Building, however, is the heart of the whole system. The 67 steps to the delivery room are probably climbed more often than any other stairway except that to the students' dormitories. Most of the books in the whole network are catalogued in this room and the books in Widener are secured there...
...somebody else. Good scenes: Miss Del Rio saving O'Brien from drowning in the pool into which he dived to pull her out; the "Lady in Red" number; the anatomical direction of a lady's glance when she meets Horton, clad in an open bathrobe, on a stairway...
...Communistic graduate of Harvard now shares the distinction with George Washington and the famous members of the Adams family, of having his picture hung on the walls of Adams House. Yesterday workmen placed a portrait of John Reed '10 on the wall of the stairway to the Upper Common Room. The portrait was painted by Robert Hallowell '10, a classmate of Reed, and was donated by a committee headed by Corliss Lamont '24. Reed, after leaving college in 1910 became a war correspondent and later went to Russia, where he took part in the revolution. He is the author...