The William Rainey Harper Memorial Library, dedicated June the tenth and eleventh, nineteen hundred twelve . c^- Coolidge. It givesthe Iniversity another illustration of English Ciothic architecture of the collegiate type,inspired by the examples of Kings College Chapel of Cambridge, and Magdalen Collegeand Christ Church of Oxford. The Library is not copied from any particular building, butthe features of its design have their origin in the motives of those ancient buildings, and it iswi-ought in that style of architecture to meet present-day needs. It is believed that the resultgives an atmos
The William Rainey Harper Memorial Library, dedicated June the tenth and eleventh, nineteen hundred twelve . c^- Coolidge. It givesthe Iniversity another illustration of English Ciothic architecture of the collegiate type,inspired by the examples of Kings College Chapel of Cambridge, and Magdalen Collegeand Christ Church of Oxford. The Library is not copied from any particular building, butthe features of its design have their origin in the motives of those ancient buildings, and it iswi-ought in that style of architecture to meet present-day needs. It is believed that the resultgives an atmosphere of dignity and charm to this important central building of the Uni\ ersity. The main features both of the Harper Memorial Library, and of the whole group ofwhich it is the central member, were laid down in the report of the Commission of1002. The main reading-room is on the third tloor of the middle section of the it in the West Tower is the Public Catalogue and General Delivery room. Fromthis Hoor bridges lead immediately to the libraries in the Haskell Oriental Museum and the. lo Second* Floor l*lan of ihe Library (jr«»iip Law Huilding. Eventually there will also be immediate communication with the reading-roomsof the other buildings of the (iroup, which still remain to be built. The general adminis-trative offices and working-rooms of the libraries are on the second Hoor. Other offices androoms for special collections are provided in the fourth. fit\h. and sixth stories of the twotowers. The book stacks rest directly on the ground, and are carried indei)endently of thebuilding. The first Hoor. with the exception of the East Tower stack, is temporarily givenup to classrooms and a suite of offices for the President of the Iniversity. With theexception of the space reserved for corridors, this Hoor will eventually be wholly occupied bystacks. The Historical and Social Science Group, whose building is to be built just cast of thenew building, is for th
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