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Work was begun yesterday on a skating rink which the Athletic Committee will build on Soldiers Field across the roadway from the new boat-house. It will be rectangular in shape, 400 by 125 feet, and the abutment of the roadway will from one of the long sides. Two hockey rinks, each 125 by 58 feet, will be fenced off at the east end and the remaining space, 284 by 125 feet, will be left open. The rink is to be flooded to the depth of one foot with water supplied from a fire faucet in the boat house...
...library building for Columbia, for which President Low has made himself responsible, will be erected in the centre of a terrace occupying the highest point of land of the new site for the college buildings. About it are to be grouped in a rectangular court the minor buildings, pierced by the southern, eastern and western approaches, all on the axial lines of the building, which is to face south. Access to the southern or principal facade will be gained from One Hundred and Sixteenth street by a flight of steps 325 feet wide, surmounted by granite posts and an iron...
According to these preliminary plans, the building will consist of a rectangular reading room, 100x70 feet, which will seat comfortably 400 persons at one time. About the walls of this room will be placed, in suitable cases, the reference books which the different alcoves now hold...
...work without any disturbance of their instruments. In the basement, and in the first story, stone tables, each supported by its own column of masonry, and without contact with the floors, furnish firm support for the instruments. In the centre of the western wing there is a large rectangular tower, standing on an independent foundation, and isolated from the surrounding rooms; this tower is designed for investigations demanding extraordinary stability or great height. To avoid the influence of magnetism as much as possible, all pipes and nails in the western wing are made of brass...
Lost: - A rectangular cuff button with design surface. Finder will be suitably rewarded by leaving at 14 Hollis Hall...