The William Rainey Harper Memorial Library, dedicated June the tenth and eleventh, nineteen hundred twelve . Library Group The demand for beauty has been met mainly in the general design and proportions ofthe building, in the towers, the highest point of whose turrets is 18.) feet abo\e the ground,in the stone carvings, both interior and exterior, and especially in the griat subjects of the carvings have been carefully selected with a view to their a|)|)ro]iriatenessto the l)uilding. Among them are the printers marks of many of tlu- early printeis. and thecoats of arms of some
The William Rainey Harper Memorial Library, dedicated June the tenth and eleventh, nineteen hundred twelve . Library Group The demand for beauty has been met mainly in the general design and proportions ofthe building, in the towers, the highest point of whose turrets is 18.) feet abo\e the ground,in the stone carvings, both interior and exterior, and especially in the griat subjects of the carvings have been carefully selected with a view to their a|)|)ro]iriatenessto the l)uilding. Among them are the printers marks of many of tlu- early printeis. and thecoats of arms of some sixty uni\ ersities, American and foreign. In the main reading-room arethe coats of arms of eight American and eight Kuro|)can and .\siatic nni\ ersities. The newlyadopted coat of arms of the Inixcrsity of Chicago has lucn used in a numhir of |)laces. The center court, bounded on the south by the I,ihrary Huilding. on the t-ist by theLaw School, and on the west h\ the Haskell Oriental Musemn. will he known as HarperCourt, and e\entuall\ then will stand in the center ot it a bron/.e statue ot ? Harper Memorial Library from the North Inscriptions and Symbolic Designs In tlie stone c-uvinors. both exterior und interior, in addition to the tnuhtional designseliaracteristic- of the (iothie arehiteeture, mueh use has been made of tlie eoats of arms ofEuropean, American, anil Asiatic imiversities, and of the printers marks of the most famousEuropean printers. The folloAvinsj is a list of the uiiiverities and colleges whose coats ofarms or seals arc carved on the exterior of the building, arranged according to location: Oil the Sc»ii(h FHevatioii Hetween the first- and sccond-storv windows of the West Tower: West Sidk: ToroiituMcGill Ckntkr : Williams Ainherst Bowdoiii Brown ()\cr the third-story window of tlu West Tower, from Iclt to right 9. Salamanca 1. IxikIiiii Z. Leyilen 3. Guttingen V. 5. Aberdeen fi. Brussels 7. Paris .s. Berlin 10. Leipzig I 1. Heiilelberg \i
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