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...apparatus room, for the storing of delicate and senstitive apparatus; and two rooms for, the assistant in charge of the building. The balance rooms throughout the Laboratory are protected from the outside walls by passageways, which make them highly efficient in preserving delicate scales from weather disturbances. A memorial tablet and bust of Professor Wolcott Gibbs, the former chief chemist of the Lawrence Scientific School, in whose honor the building was named have been placed on the left wall of the entrance hallway...
That the present year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the building of Holworthy Hall is perhaps not so well known as it should be by the men who daily pass the tablet which relates the story of its founding. Professor Palmer has often spoken of the absurdity, according to present-day standards, of the University's raising money to build a dormitory by investing in a state lottery. Times change; but we are glad at any rate to have Holworthy Hall and proud to know that she has now served Harvard well for a century...
Plans have been completed for a tablet to be placed over the south tower entrance of the Stadium by the class of 1879. It will bear a simple inscription commemorating the part taken by the class in the giving of the Stadium. The tablet has been designed by Messrs. McKim, Mead & White, the architects of the Stadium, and will be very simple, to conform to the general style of the structure. The south entrance will be heightened to better the effect. It is hoped that the tablet will be in place by Commencement...
Above the fireplace in the living room it is proposed to place an oil painting of Burr. It was originally planned to erect a memorial tablet in the entrance hall, but this idea has been abandoned in favor of the picture...
...tablet has just been placed in the second story of Langdell Hall in memory of the late Edward Henry Strobel '77, formerly Bemis Professor of International Law, and at the time of his death, general adviser to His Siamese Majesty's government. This tablet, which is of cream-white Vermont marble, with gilt bronze lettering, was designed by the architect A. W. Longlellow '76 and constructed by John Evans & Co. It is a gift to the College in memory of their classmate Strobel, by the class of 1877, acting through a committee consisting of Morris Gray, A. Lawrence Lowell, Lindsay...