Wellesley magazine . ksbe fireproof, and the rest of the building of slow-burning construction. Thatthe first floor (or basement) be built high, and furnish several study or stor-age rooms, an unpacking room, cloak rooms, etc. That the stacks be fin-ished with white brick, and be of three tiers of seven-foot shelving, the mid-dle one on a level with the main library floor, and that the walls be abouttwenty-five feet high. That the department, or study rooms, be open to theroof, the walls being sixteen feet high. The department rooms are expected to shelve about six thousandvolumes each, and to
Wellesley magazine . ksbe fireproof, and the rest of the building of slow-burning construction. Thatthe first floor (or basement) be built high, and furnish several study or stor-age rooms, an unpacking room, cloak rooms, etc. That the stacks be fin-ished with white brick, and be of three tiers of seven-foot shelving, the mid-dle one on a level with the main library floor, and that the walls be abouttwenty-five feet high. That the department, or study rooms, be open to theroof, the walls being sixteen feet high. The department rooms are expected to shelve about six thousandvolumes each, and to accommodate about thirty readers, and the main refer-ence room to accommodate seventy-five readers, and shelve eight thousandvolumes. It is supposed that works in science will be located with thescientific laboratories, and art works in the Farnsworth Art Building. It isexpected that free access to the shelves will be granted in reference andstudy rooms, and by application, to the stacks. THE WELLESLEY MAGAZINE. 211. DesiOH fer New Library Eiuildit-id • Wellesley-College • riarlwcll . Richardson and Driver Arcinilccls boslon . Mass i Such a building would shelve nearly two hundred and seventy-five thou-sand volumes, and would probably cost about $200,000. If necessary, forimmediate needs, the cost could be reduced to $150,000, by omitting the twostudy rooms at the rear, and reducing the capacity of the stacks to aboutsixty thousand volumes. [Signed] L. B. Godfrey, Librarian. 212 THE WELLESLEY MAGAZINE. ii. The tributes to General Walker which poured in from all parts of thecountry at the news of his sudden death, sufficiently attest the magnitude ofhis loss to the world of American colleges. The Massachusetts Instituteof Technology is one of the few American schools which are held abroad asthe peers of European institutions. Such schools reflect esteem on theentire educational system of the country, and a cloud upon one of themovershadows all our colleges. But no one can d
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