The University Courier.
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The New Library.
The Spooner Library building, if completed in accordance with the plans presented, will be the handsomest structure on Mount Oread. It will, in all probability, be located on the east side of Oread avenue, just opposite the Woodward property, while the Chancellor's residence will be located just below on the hill side with an Adams street front. This will leave room for a dormitory and for a gymnasium on the north half of the Bullene tract.
The new library building will face west and will be built in the latest and most modern style, with all the most approved facilities. It will be constructed of stone with red brick or Colorado sand stone trimmings, and will be three stories in height. The front entrance will be especially handsome with its imposing portico and its great doors. It leads directly into the second story where, on each side of the vestibule, are seminary rooms, 20x23 feet, designed for a meeting place for seminaries and clubs that hold regular sessions. Farther on and occupying the center of this floor is the reading room, 50 x 75 feet, fitted out with reading tables and splendidly lighted from both sides. In the alcoves at the farther end are places for the newspapers and magazines of the day.
Descending to the first floor by fine broad stairways, will be found a larger hall to be fitted up as a sort of auditorium. On this floor will also be found the unpacking room, the collating room and the lavatories. Ascending to the third story one will find the Library Hall, $ 5 0 \times 5 0 $ feet, which is to serve as the place, par excellence, for holding all University receptions, banquets, etc. In front and to each side of the landing will be seminary rooms, similar to those on the second floor.
The books will be kept in what are called the stacks, a fire-proof building attached to the rear of the portion just described. This portion will be five stories of eight feet each, with the third floor on the level with the second floor of the front portion. The stacks will be in easy reach from this floor by means of spiral staircases, so that any book can be readily
secured. The stack will be lighted and ventilated so that students doing special work requiring research in the library will probably be allowed admission. All in all, the new building will be most complete.
Twelfth Night.
The expectations that had been aroused by the announcements of the production of Twelfth Night for the benefit of the Athletic Association were in no measure disappointed. The production will rank among the very best of all those given by our amateurs, and worthily continues the success of the "Shaksperian revivals" begun by A Midsummer Night's Dream. There was the same careful study of the accessories of scenery and costume, the same regard for the lesser details, the same evidence of individual dramatic aptitude in those chosen for the cast, that have given amateur theatricals in Lawrence their enviable reputation, and made them something different from what ordinarily goes under that name, something more serious, more valuable, more capable of comparison with what professional actors attain. It is already high praise for our local dramatic representations that they suggest the comparison with what well equipped companies accomplish.
The general opinion rendered a half-unconscious and so much the more sincere tribute to the excellence of the several actors when it remarked "how fortunately the actors were chosen for their parts." That really means simply that all entered fully and intelligently into the spirit of their roles, and really conveyed to the spectator the impression of the characters they were impersonating. If all did not tread the stage with the freedom and ease of veterans, or wholly free themselves from the consciousness of their identity in delivering their lines, yet throughout it was surprising how little interference there was from this source with the general excellence and adequacy of the interpretation. The play ran with vigor and with smoothness from beginning to end.
Of the individual actors there will be differences of opinion. But there will hardly be