Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Allow me space for a brief contradiction of the report on the first page of this morning's 'Advertiser,' headed "Harvard Senate," in which there is not a word of truth save and except the names of the students and the information that they are prominent in college...
...which will be converted into a stack, entirely fire-proof, which will accommodate 150,000 volumes. The upper story will be fitted up as a new reading room with more airy alcoves, better tables, and easy chairs. Between the present ceiling and the roof there is a vacant space of fifteen feet. This ceiling will be torn down, so that the new room will be at least as high as the old. The lighting, too, will be greatly improved, as the old ground glass will be taken out and larger panes of plate glass substituted. At night the reading room...
...card catalogue cases of the delivery room will be moved back under the balcony on the left of the entrance. The additional space will prevent persons waiting at the desk for books from colliding with those who are looking through the catalogue case...
...library increases at an average rate of 10,000 volumes a year. Obviously with the present great accumulation of unstacked books, the new space will soon be consumed. When this comes about, the proposed plan is to turn the whole of what is now the reading room, as well as the empty space between the ceiling and the roof, into a stack. By this change 500,000 additional volumes in all could be put away. The library at present contains about 400,000 volumes, so it would have to more than double before it could fill up the extra space...
...first place the books of the theatrical managers of the Elizabethan period contain items of painted cloths, trees, and other appliances. Mr. Day says the depth of the stage was twenty-five feet, too great to be spanned by one roof, hence the two roofs. The space concealed by the slanting roof was used to arrange and lower scenery...