Word: interior
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...portion will contain the library with the reading room on the second floor and the lecture rooms on the ground floor. As in Austin Hall, the lecture rooms are arranged in the form of amphitheaters, with curved rows of seats rising in tiers from the lecturer's desk. The interior will be fire proof throughout and will be finished in quartered oak. There will be easy communication with the old building by means of an underground corridor...
During the summer vacation important alterations have been made in the interior arrangements of the Society's store involving changes in the location of several departments. The second story, hitherto occupied by tenants, has been remodelled and made to afford commodious and well-lighted quarters for the two important departments of tailoring and men's furnishings, the latter including hats, shoes, and athletic goods. Access is now afforded to this second floor by the construction of a handsome interior staircase of hardwood leading from the forward part of the main floor. The old main entrance to the upper part...
...Union has met with opposition from the authorities of the Union. The chief ground of objection seems to be that a precedent would be started which would in time turn the Union into a species of mausoleum, and would detract from the home-like aspect of its interior. We feel that such fears are groundless. Dean Shaler's position in the University was so unique, that there will be few men whose claim for a memorial in the Union can be based upon the precedent of a bas-relief or bust of Dean Shaler. Nor do we feel that...
Work on the Weld Boat House is rapidly nearing completion. The plastering and the interior work are already finished, and the tile roof will be completed today. Practically all that remains to be done to the building itself is the grading, which will be started today and should be finished by the end of the week. The floats and runs, however, are still to be put in place, and it is probable that this work will not be completed till July...
...Avenel began his career as secretary of the Departmental and Communal Administration in the Ministry of the Interior, but soon left public life to devote his attention to research work in economics. He is well known as the historian of the "Economic Life and Material Civilization of France from 1200 to the Present Day," in which he made elaborate tables showing the cost price of everything in the period treated. Some of these tables have been published in four large volumes by the French Ministry of Public Instruction, and have been twice awarded the Prix Rossi by the Academie...