Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Yard is as deserted as a recitation in Logic. No, some one is awake; there is a light in a window of the fourth story of Weld; how bright it is! Great Heavens...
...similar to the one just described, except that its doorway and pediment slightly differ in shape. The south end of the building will front Main Street, and will be quite plain in general appearance. A tier of triple windows will extend up the centre, three to a floor, furnishing light to the entries within. These windows will have carved brickwork underneath, and the middle one in each triplet will be double the length of the other two, and will extend down to the floor, the lower half being flanked by carved brickwork. This extension is to furnish a ready means...
...color of the Law-School crew is light blue, that of the '79 crew is white...
...width and 80 in height. The third floor is to be partly devoted to an art department, consisting of a lecture-room capable of seating three hundred persons, and two large art galleries for statuary and pictures. The seats will be so arranged in the recitation-rooms that the light from the windows will fall over the left shoulders of the students. The contract specifies that the building will be finished by April...
...Freshmen are of course perfectly evident; the extortionate prices which are charged for rooms in the Yard make it difficult to let all of them, and so good rooms must be offered to those who enter next year, or else they will room outside. Viewed in this light, there is no ground for surprise at the retention of rooms, however much there may be for dissatisfaction...