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...obtained, or just how it was disposed of at first, is not known. It came into the possession of the University, however, a long time ago, and when the Library was erected, it was set in the wall of the old transept. on the side where the stack was subsequently built, and there was an inscription with it, telling the few facts of its history...
About eighteen years ago when Dr. Winsor became Librarian of the University, he accidently came upon the cross in the cellar of the Library. It had apparently been thrown there carelessly, when the stack was erected. It was marked as the "Louisburg Cross" at the time. At Dr. Winsor's suggestion it was gilded and placed over the entrance to the Library where it has been ever since...
...Adams, Holden, Curtis, Kilborn, Lloyd, D. Catlin, Holt, Duffield, Jackson, Jewell, Celeman, H. Shaw, Homans, Cotton, A. Adams, Baldwin, Cook, Raymond, R. Shaw, Thompson, Farley, Preston, Simpson, Brown, Taylor, Johnston, Durgin, Nourse, Fairbanks, Tucker, Stanwood, Spencer, Boardman, Macomber, Richardson, Sherwin, Dibblee, Stack, O'Brine, Proctor, Healy, Hayden, Simonds, Hodges, Barrel, Rideout, Frost, Cochrane, Stowell, Lawton, Ward, White, Ayer. Practice...
...removal of the lower alcoves in the delivery room, increased space for the card-catalogue and the public; but the great change will consist of the complete reconstruction of the interior of the original Gore Hall building. This structure has been stripped to the bare walls. A three story stack will be placed in the lower portion of the empty shell, which will bring the second story of the stack on the level of the delivery room floor. Space will be taken out of this second and third floor of the stack for a staircase to the reading room. This...
...years only; and there will still exist the urgent necessity for a new and extensive reading room outside the present walls. Such a structure should also give increased accommodations for official quarters and professors' rooms. When ultimately this new reading room is secured, the three-story stack in Gore Hall can be carried up four more stories, thus making it the chief store-room of the collections. The plan now in progress seemed under the circumstances, the most advisable method of securing the temporary relief, for which the call was imperative. Very little of the $50,000 which the changes...