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...architect of the new athletic building asserts that the rowing tank will be ready for use by January first at the latest...
...students are spending their money and inconveniencing themselves-waiting apparently endressly. It is not our purpose to take sides on the question of the law suit. In the first place we have no knowledge of the point in question beyond the bare fact that the university complains that the architect has not finished the building at the specified time, and the architect that the university delayed in awarding the contracts for the construction of the various stories. Wherever the truth of the question may lie, the fact remains the same that it is an injustice to the students to delay...
...Propylaea together with views illustrating the architecture, he succeeded in giving his audience a very definite idea of the Propylaea and its surroundings. His study of the architecture of the building was particularly interesting, for in the Propylaea we have an excellent example of what a really great architect can accomplish even under the rigid restrictions of the Greek school. The problem which the sloping rock of the Acropolis presented to the architect has been particularly well solved...
...District of Columbia yesterday. Professor Johnston is still confined to his house, and is not yet able to take charge of his classes. The site chosen for the new dormitory is the ground between Edwards Hali and the new Art building. The plans by Mr. Page, the architect of the Art School, have been accepted. By a recent action of the faculty, the gymnasium will be open all day. Heretofore it has been greatly crowded during the few hours it has been open daily...
Work on the new library building at Cornell will be begun as soon as possible. The site chosen for the building is at the southwest corner of the quadrangle, where the ground slopes rapidly to the south and to the west, thereby offering advantages which the architect has not failed to make use of. Thus the reading-room, which is entered from the grounds on the east side, is on a level with the fourth floor of the west stack-room, which has seven stacks each seven feet high; the delivery desk being then at the vertical middle...