Academic buildings and halls of residence, plans and descriptions . •ma iMvyv ^ ^-vJ^ j* he -Litairy - Cfefeits Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign TAYLOR HALL. Taylor Hall, the central academic building, was begun in the lifetime of thefounder of the college, after whom it was named, and was completed by the trusteesin 1882. It contains the offices of administration, the assembly-room, ten lecture-rooms, and two interview rooms. .Taylor Hall is open from seven in the morning till six i
Academic buildings and halls of residence, plans and descriptions . •ma iMvyv ^ ^-vJ^ j* he -Litairy - Cfefeits Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign TAYLOR HALL. Taylor Hall, the central academic building, was begun in the lifetime of thefounder of the college, after whom it was named, and was completed by the trusteesin 1882. It contains the offices of administration, the assembly-room, ten lecture-rooms, and two interview rooms. .Taylor Hall is open from seven in the morning till six in the evening. Taylor Mall. ThirdS tort THE LIBRARY. The library, the gift of the friends, graduates, and stu-dents of the college, was begun in April, 1903, and completedin February, 1907. It is built of gray stone in the JacobeanGothic style of architecture of the period of 1630, and formsthree sides of a closed quadrangle. The main building, devotedto the library proper, faces east and is opposite and parallel toTaylor Hall at a distance of about fifty yards; the principalentrances of the two buildings face each other and are connectedby a broad cement path. The east front is one hundred andseventy-four feet long and contains a three-story stack withaccommodation for eighty-eight thousand volumes, and abovethis a large reading-room with desks for one hundred and thirty-six readers, each screened to a height of two feet, as in the BritishMuseum reading-room, to secure privacy to the reader. Nobooks of reference are kept in the main reading-room. Beyondthe reading-room on the south side are the newspaper and maacademicbuilding1910bryn
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