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...most important interior feature of the new building is the noble library hall, a room of grand proportions, with a triple-arch roof supported by iron truss-work, so that the floor space -113 by 75 feet-is unbroken by divisions. A gallery makes the circuit of it and the walls within reaching distance of the floor and of the gallery are lined with that best of decorations, books. The general arrangement is by subjects and every frequenter of the library has unquestioned access to the 25,000 volumes here shelved as a reference library. The floor is ditted with...
...Jefferson Laboratory is practically completed, almost all of the interior work being done and some of the instruments already in place. The lectures in some of the physics courses will be held in it at once, although the workmen have not vacated a few of the rooms. A full description of the building, its contents and the uses to which it is to be put. The new tennis grounds behind Divinity are not in very good condition for play this fall as the grass was permitted to grow long during the summer. One court has been marked out which...
...college. The dormitory system pursued, in many respects, resemble that in vogue at Harvard. The central college building is located on a hill over-looking the lake and college grounds. The views from its windows are very fine. This building has a large court in its interior arranged after the manner of the Roman atrium from which branch off the various corridors, officers and reception rooms. The building is several stories high, and terminates unexpectedly with the art-room under its eaves. The college museum is not one half as interesting as the trunk-rooms. The trunks of the students...
...enjoyable lectures before a good audience last evening. The subject chosen was Venice, and the views shown by the stereopticon were very beautiful. The first views were photographs of the Lower Piazza, and the Ducal Palace. Then the lecturer presented views of St. marks, both from the interior and exterior. The photographs of the altar rail and the south end of the Vestibule were especially noticeable. The Campanile was the next object described, the lecturer dwelling at length upon the beautiful views which lay in sight from its upper windows...
After throwing upon the screen some beautiful interior views of the Ducal Palac, the lecturer went on to the description of the Grand Canal, lined with noble palaces on either side, which have now been desecrated by being converted into mere ware-houses. A few more views of a general nature closed the exhibition. It is to be regretted that some of the views were so in distinctinctly taken, as the injudicious "restorations" which are now going on will destroy many of the beauties which should be preserved by this means...