Laying the Cornerstone
 

22    McKim to Low, 16 October 1894. Columbia
University. Office of the President. Central Files.

23    Low to McKim, 13 October 1894. Columbia
University. Office of the President. Central Files.

24  "Now, as at Chicago, the key-note to the solution of
the Columbia site exists in the development of the ter¬
race .system and the consequent resulting court on the
south, by means of which the center of the plot is imme¬
diately brought into contact with 116th Street." McKim
to Low, 7 December 1894. Columbia University. Office
of the PresidenL Central Files.

25  l^w to McKim, 20 May 1895. Columbia University.
Office of the President. Central Files.

26 On the change in the law, see Bender, New York Intellect,
280-81. The rubrics come from an article printed in The
Dialshortly after Low's announcement and contained in
a file of clippings on Low's gift in Columbiana Library.

2*^ McKim to Low, handwritten letter dated London, 6
April 1896. Columbia University. Office of the President.
Central Files.

28  A New Curriculum for the School of Arts. Adopted by the
Faculty, fanuary 24, i8g6. To go into effect fuly i, i8^j,
printed report bound with the Trustees' Minutes,
Columbia University. University Archives. Office of the
Secretary of the University. Minutes of the Trustees of
Columbia College, vol. 16 (1895-96).

29   From the pamphlet Columbia University (1897): 3,
printed on the occasion of the University's taking up
residence at the new site. There are two copies of this
pamphlet in Columbiana Library. This image of the
library-as-laboratory might well have come from the
 

Librarian, James Canfield, who used it in numerous
reports of the period and expanded upon it at some
length in his article "The Library," Columbia University
Quartedy2 (1900), 101-107.

30 Columbia University Quarterly 1 (1898-99): 136. The
seminar room idea is explained in Russell Sturgis, ed., A
Dictionary of Architecture and Building (New York:
Macmillan, 1902), vol. 3, col. 480, which also contains a
detailed description of the Avery Architectural Library
within Low Library. Photographs of the seminar rooms
were published in Canfield, "The Library," facing page
104, and in Library Planning, Bookstacks and Shelving with
Contributions from the Architects' and Librarians' Points of
View (Jersey City, NJ: The Snead & Company Iron Works,
Inc., 1915), 149.

3' Low to McKim, Mead, and White, 14 February 1896.
Columbia University. Office of the President. Central

Files.

32  Low to McKim, from Northeast Harbor, Maine, 24
August 1896. Columbia University. Office of the
President. Central Files.

33   Rives to McKim, undated letter, August 1896.
Columbia University. Office of the President, Central

Files.

34  McKim to Low, 10 June 1895. Columbia University.
Office of the President. Central Files.

3^ Low lo McKim, 4 October 1897. Columbia University.
Office of the President. Central Files.
 

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