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...building is entered by a broad flight of steps, leading to a vestibule 24 feet wide and 8 feet deep. One side of it is partly occupied by a spiral fire-escape, reaching to the upper floor, and inclosed so that it is not visible from the outside. Passing through the entrance, a hall 13 feet wide extends through to the rear of the building. On the right is a lecture room, 30 feet by 50 feet. The floor will have an incline of about 4 feet, and it is expected that the room will seat 250 persons...
When completed, it will stand on Divinity Avenue, facing east, about 75 feet south of the Peabody Museum. There will be three stories, with a frontage of 80 feet and an extreme depth of 84 feet. The latter dimension includes the rear addition, which will be 56 feet wide by 24 feet in depth. The building will be constructed of brick and lime-stone, with a granite base and steps. The interior construction is strictly fire-proof with concrete floors and no wood-work whatever. A complete system of heating and ventilating will be introduced...
...high. The main entrance, which will be of Istrian stone, will be reached by a flight of steps from the quadrangle. There will also be a side entrance on the west for the use of students. On the lower floor, an exhibition hall, 52 feet long and 32 feet wide, is to be devoted to a valuable collection of Greek, Roman, and Renaissance casts. This hall will extend upward through two stories. In the rear of the ground floor there will be a corridor, separated from the exhibition hall by Doric columns supporting the corridor of the upper floor...
...main drawing-room, 140 feet long and 30 feet wide, will fill the entire north side of the upper floor. From this room open dirctly a smaller drawing-room on the south east corner and a library on the southwest...
...pictures for which the first prize was awarded includes a wide variety of subjects, and at the same time is remarkably fine from both a technical and an artistic point of view. Besides giving an excellent idea of many College buildings, it is valuable as showing present customs in dress, in athletic contests and in many other branches of life. The collection which took second prize consists largely of interior views, taken with great taste and skill. Of the pictures which were given first mention, perhaps the best is a view of Harvard Hall and the First Parish Church, including...