. Boston, a guide book . tory, we come first to a gate given by Mrs. Wirt Dexter to com-memorate her son, Samuel Dexter, a member of the class of 1890, whodied in 1894. Next is the gate erected by the class of 1877, andentering here we find, ourselves in front of the Library, or Gore original building was the gift of Christopher Gore, a leadinglawyer and governor of Massachusetts. Enlargements of modern datehave increased its usefulness, if not its beauty. The library contains400,200 bound volumes, and this number is swelled by outlying collec-tions in various departments of the unive
. Boston, a guide book . tory, we come first to a gate given by Mrs. Wirt Dexter to com-memorate her son, Samuel Dexter, a member of the class of 1890, whodied in 1894. Next is the gate erected by the class of 1877, andentering here we find, ourselves in front of the Library, or Gore original building was the gift of Christopher Gore, a leadinglawyer and governor of Massachusetts. Enlargements of modern datehave increased its usefulness, if not its beauty. The library contains400,200 bound volumes, and this number is swelled by outlying collec-tions in various departments of the university to 607,100, — to saynothing of pamphlets. For students who feel unequal to masteringthe library as a whole, a small lot of 22,500 volumes is providedon the easily accessible shelves of the reading room. Among thevaluable private collections that have been contributed to the libraryare Parkmans books, George Ticknors collection of Dante literature,and Carlyles collection of books relating to Cromwell and Frederick. Harvard Main Gate HARVARD UNIVERSITY loi the Great. Emerging from the Hbrary and skirting the yard to theright, we come first to Sever Hall, a recitation building, simple, sub-stantial, and dignified, the work of the late H. H. Richardson. It wasbuilt in 1880 from a fund given by Mrs. Anne E. P. Sever. To the leftis the college chapel, called Appleton Chapel, a building of light stoneerected in 1858, the gift of Samuel Appleton. Beyond it and facing onCambridge Street is a neat building of stone, almost white, broughtfrom Indiana. This is the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum, erectedin 1895, ^^^ given by Mrs. Elizabeth Fogg. It contains a large collectionof casts, statues, engravings, coins, etc., but leaves something to bedesired in point of beauty. Turning sharply to the left and continuingto skirt the yard, we find at the bend in the road the Phillips BrooksHouse, designed by A. W. Longfellow. It is the center of the religiouslife of the university. In this vi
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