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Copies of the HERALD supplement containing the account of the plans for the new law school building can be obtained at Drury...
...original gift for the new Law School building was $100,000, but the approved plans will necessitate $126,000 for the building and $9000 additional for the furnishing. The donor has kindly increased his liberal gift, so that it will now be possible for Harvard law students to enjoy the privileges of a building not surpassed in this country and probably not in the world...
...prospects of the Harvard Law School are decidedly bright. With a newly re-organized course of instruction, with an enlarged body of instructors and with a constantly increasing attendance of students from all parts of the country, and, finally, with the immediate prospect of new and commodious quarters, it need not be many years before our Law School becomes admittedly the foremost institution of its kind in the country. The sketch of the plans for the new building of the school, which we present today, has been carefully prepared for the HARVARD HERALD from the plans in the hands...
...Harvard Law School, since its foundation in 1817 by Isaac Parker, then chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, has continued to increase in the number of students and professors until today it is one of the chief departments of the university and second to no law school in the country in point of excellence in instruction and method. To Nathan Dane, an early resident of Massachusetts. is due the credit of aiding in the erection of the first building for the study of law at Harvard. In October, 1831, he advanced the sum of five thousand dollars...
...architect is certainly to be congratulated upon the external appearance of the building. Indeed he has most happily succeeded in uniting the appearance of a memorial building with the grandeur of a school designed for the student of the law. But in his desire to make the outside imposing he has not neglected the convenience and comfort of those who are to use it, so that after the 1st of September, 1883, the Harvard law student will no longer be obliged to point out to the visitor the diminutive Dane Hall as the law school of America's largest university...