The above quote is from Lynn Taylor (Class of 1967). Read the full memory below:

When I arrived in the Fall of 1963, we still had to research and study in the narrow stacks and glass floors of the Hay (kind of romantic, really). I remember the joy of walking into the Rock and settling in to one of the luxurious reading chairs looking out over Providence and thinking, “Now this is a library!” Also had way better spaces for “lingering” and hoping that special guy might pass by and say hi.

Also (I don’t think I’m making this up), I believe they had already inscribed the Roman numerals of its completion into the front concrete (MCMLXIII) for the planned completion date of 1963, but when it ran late, had to add another I to get to 1964, rather than the more proper MCMLXIV! Doesn’t it still say MCMLXIIII?