Word: special
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...intended to give the design the character of colonial architecture, so that it may harmonize with the old College buildings. The main hall will be finished up to the roof. The height will be 52 feet, the length 112, and the width from 63 to 80 feet. Special quarters are to be provided for the Crew and Nine, and nine bowling alleys will be placed in the basement. The estimated cost...
...TITUS, 3 Stoughton, is the special retail agent in Cambridge, for the heliotypes published by Houghton, Osgood & Co. These heliotypes include many choice subjects from Correggio, Durer, Land-seer, and others. Specimens may be seen at Mr. Titus's room. The pictures are 19 X 24 inches in size, and retail at one dollar each...
DURING the past two years the changes at Gore Hall have caused necessarily so much noise and confusion as to demand great patience and forbearance on the part of all who used the Library. Those students whose electives obliged them to study there worked under special disadvantages, and justly felt that they were deprived of many of the benefits a library should give. Complaint, however, was useless, because, until the extension was completed, relief was impossible...
...divided by a set of shelves, but these shelves will be removed and study-tables substituted; the students will then be given free access to the books in these alcoves, - a privilege long desired and of obvious benefit. Moreover, it is proposed to devote each alcove to some special department, filling it with books upon the subjects of that department, and thus making it a favorite working-place for men pursuing such studies. Here they will find a thousand or more volumes which they can consult at will, together with various aids to their particular study, and the companionship...
...fitted up; nor would it do to fill the alcoves with the books already in the Library, for this would hinder our present chance to take out books. It would be necessary to purchase duplicates of books already in the Library, and, in addition, many new volumes needed in special studies; this would involve an expense that the authorities would hardly think justifiable at present...