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 LATER BUILDINGS OF THE FIRST QUARTER-CENTURY 439 the departments immediately concerned and the heads of other departments being invited. There were two entrances to the building, on the east and north fronts; over the north entrance was this inscription: CLASSICS BUILDING HIRAM KELLY MEMORIAL Classics was not quite so large as Rosenwald, having "a ground area of nine thousand five hundred and eighty-five square feet," as reported by the Business Manager. As a piece of architecture it was much admired. On the ground floor there were six class- rooms and the Assembly Room. Book stacks occupied the rest of the space and corresponding space on the two floors above, as well as the entire basement. On the second floor were offices of members of the star!, a Men's Common Room, and a Women's Common Room. On the third floor were rooms for Paleography and Epigraphy, the Department of the History of Art, the Library Adviser, and the main Reading-Room. This Reading-Room was forty by forty-eight feet, exclusive of an alcove eight by forty feet, and two stories in height. On the fourth floor were additional offices for the teaching staff, the large museum, thirty- three by eighty-three feet, containing the Stanley McCormick and other collections of antiquities, and the editorial office of Classical Philology, the journal of the departments. As in the case of Rosenwald Hall the architects made symbolic carving a feature of the exterior of Classics. Here and there appeared the heads of Greek and Roman men of letters. In the cornice were carved illustrations of Aesop's fables. For the erection, equipment, and furnishings of the Classics Building the University expended two hundred and eighty-five thousand, four hundred and forty-eight dollars. The last building to be erected during the first quarter-century was the Ida Noyes Hall for women. The original purpose had contemplated a women's gymnasium. During the early months of 1913 the President and Mrs. Judson had a number of conferences regarding this building with LaVerne Noyes, one of Chicago's