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The Libeaby of the Univeesity. 



The Library Building, as the other buildings 

 and their arrangement, has been designed 

 by Messrs. McKim, Meade & White, under 

 the immediate supervision of President Low. 



In the rear of the Library Building, the 

 basement being on a lower level, will be 

 the University Building, for which the 

 foundations are being prepared. The south- 

 erly portion of the building, facing the 

 library quadrangle, is designed as a Memo- 

 rial Hall. Connecting with the Hall and on 

 the same level will be the University Thea- 

 ter, with a seating capacity of 2,500. There 

 will be a Gymnasium under the Theater, and 

 the engine rooms will be under Memorial 

 Hall. On public occasions the entire build- 

 ing can be used. 



Plans have been prepared for Havemeyer 

 Hall, erected as a memorial of Frederick C. 

 Havemeyer for the department of chemistry, 



and the Engineering Building, and these 

 will soon be in course of erection. 



The foundation stones of the Physics 

 Building and of Schermerhorn Hall were 

 laid on May 2. The Physics Building will 

 ultimately be devoted entirely to the depart- 

 ment of physics, but for the present will 

 also be used for related sciences. Scher- 

 merhorn Hall, the gift of Mr. William C. 

 Schermerhorn, the chairman of the trustees, 

 will be devoted to the natural sciences and 

 will contain the departments of mineralogy, 

 geology, paleontology, botany, zoology and 

 psychology. These buildings are to be built 

 of the over-burned brick of a dull-red 

 color, generally known as Harvard brick, 

 and of Indiana limestone. In style they 

 are in keeping with the Library, and repre- 

 sent to some extent a reversion to the best 

 construction of the Colonial period. 



