Word: wings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...largely to its facilities and together with its old equipment make it one of the best mining laboratories in the United States. A gift from J. J. Storrow '85 made possible the entire refitting of the laboratory of metallurgical chemistry. This laboratory now occupies a room in the west wing, sixty feet long and thirty feet wide, provided with forty-eight desks which are equipped in the best manner for the study of metallurgical chemistry...
...plan is at present under consideration of adding a wing to the north side of the Law School, 65 feet long by 75 feet wide, containing five stories and a basement. This addition would be used essentially as a book stack, the present stack being turned into a reading room...
...Forbes '95 has added to the valuable collection of original works deposited by him as an indefinite loan, a large panel triptych in tempera of the Italian school of the fifteenth century, representing the Madonna and child surrounded by angels and cherubs, with a St. Sebastian on one wing and a St. Francis on the other; and a small Holy Family of the sixteenth century, in oil color, which has the characteristics of the works of Correggio. An Ionian Greek vase of the seventh century has been received from Mr. Charles F. Murray of London, and a drawing after Michael...
...Department of Education has recently moved into its new quarters on the second floor of the right wing of Lawrence Hall. The chief features of the change are two large rooms in which have been placed two libraries of the department, one of which is made available for the first time and the other of which is entirely new. The first of these is a library of over four thousand text books and works of reference from schools of all grades. They have been given to the department by various publishers throughout the country, and comprise nearly all modern school...
There are four other rooms on the floor. One will be used as an office, another for the seminary of education, and the two remaining rooms have been thrown together to form a lecture room, in which the courses in Education will be given. In the wing at the rear of the hall an exhibition of school supplies is to be established...