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Some sixty views were then thrown in rapid succession by the calcium light on to the white wall, and Professor Cooke, in his entertaining way, commented on each as it passed. All the pictures were interesting, and many of them beautiful. Among them may be mentioned several fine views of the Coliseum, showing its construction and the recent excavations, the Aqueducts, the Arch of Constantions, the Aqueducts, the Arch of Constantine, a view from the Capital looking back over the Forum, the Via Sacra, several views of the Tiber, and, last of all, St. Peter's, showing the dome...
...stories high and contains three laboratories, On the ground floor are the physiological and embryological laboratories, and on the second floor the morphological laboratory. Eight large working tables, for four men each, have been placed in the morphological laboratory in front of the windows; the end wall spaces are fitted up with instrument and reagent cases, and between the windows are hung diagrams, charts, etc. Adjoining this room is a library provided with the works necessary for the courses; and in the basement are numerous aquaria...
...American college publications. If possible, a reading-room will be fitted up containing back numbers of the various college papers on file, and current copies for the inspection of visitors and for the use of alumni at Paris. Photographs of the editorial staff will be hung on the wall, and as premiums will be awarded the best college publications, it is hoped that a very large number of papers will be exhibited. The CRIMSON has recently received one of Professor Parks' circulars, and is doing its best for furthering a scheme which will undoubtedly do credit to American colleges...
...cataloguing-room is forty-five by twenty feet with a large bay twenty by fifteen feet, and has sufficient wall space for the bibliographical collection. Between the cataloguing room and the large reading-room is the librarian's office, placed at the centre of administration...
Three sides of the building will serve as three sides of the tank, and will only require a wall of brick four inches thick. The fourth side will be eight inches thick and backed up with earth. Each side is three feet high. There will still remain sufficient room for dressing and observing the men while they are rowing. The floor of the tank will be built of bricks laid in cement on sand and covered with Portland cement. It will be built as long as possible, but will be less than twenty-five feet in width. The tank will...