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...volume of work done steadily increases. Much of it is done, however, under great disadvantages, as has been repeatedly pointed out in these reports. The shelves of the present building have become so crowded, that last spring it proved impossible to find room for the accessions without removing from Gore Hall a large number of the old books. Accordingly 15,000 volumes were boxed and piled up in the cellar of Appleton Chapel, - a humiliating expedient to which the Librarian was simply forced to resort. The same thing will soon have to be done again. No sooner were these books...
...uses. Such buildings Cornell, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Yale, Michigan, Northwestern, and Kansas universities have obtained within the last ten years; and Columbia is preparing to make her library the central feature of the magnificent group of buildings to be erected on her new grounds. The condition of things in Gore Hall is disheartening and mortifying. The reading room is much too small for the number of readers, is badly lighted, and not ventilated at all; the catalogue and delivery room is unwholesomely crowded all day; and the shelf-room for books is so completely occupied that the proper classification...
...Eighteen years ago the Corporation, fully realizing the importance of the Library to the development of advanced instruction at Cambridge in all subjects, spent $90,000 out of their very limited unrestricted capital in enlarging the original Gore Hall. The unrestricted funds have never recovered from that abrupt reduction, - on the contrary, they have been still further diminished by occasional annual deficits in excess of annual surplusses. It is impossible for the Corporation to repeat that operation. The whole income of the University from invested funds and from tuition-fees is needed to maintain the present scale of expenditure...
...Gore Hall is an excellent place in which to spend one's time, but it was never intended for use as a club-house...
...tfLOST. - Probably in the Yard between Grays and Gore, or Grays and Mass., a plain gold ring marked "J. Warren Mead." Liberal reward for return of same to 50 Grays...