At either end of the vault is a rectangular panel painted in the same style as those depicting the ancient games in the North Corridor, but in this case representing the modern sports of _Football_ and _Baseball_. The former, occurring at the east end of the vault, is a more or less realistic picture of a “scrimmage.” The latter is more conventionalized, showing single figures, like the pitcher and catcher, in the attitude of play, and others with bats, masks, and gloves. Instead of the swans and dragons of the North Corridor, the printers’ marks in the penetrations of the present corridor are supported between the figures of mermen and fauns, and mermaids and nymphs, the male figures, with their suggestion of greater decorative strength, occurring at the ends of the corridor, and the nymphs and mermaids alternating between. Altogether there are thirty-two figures, each painted by Mr. Frederick C. Martin. On the pendentives, the series of trophies begun in the North Corridor is continued, giving place, as before, in every other pendentive, to a tablet bearing an inscription. Beginning on the south side, at the east end, the trophies are as follows: Printing, with a stick, inking-ball, and type-case; Pottery, three jugs of different kinds of clay; Glass-making, three glass vases of different shapes; Carpentry, a saw, bit, hammer, and right angle; Smithery, the anvil, pincers, hammer, bolt, and nut; Masonry, a trowel, square, plumb, and mortar-board. The following are the eight inscriptions:-- Studies perfect nature and are perfected by experience. _Bacon._ Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. _Wordsworth._ Learning is but an adjunct to ourself. _Love’s Labor’s Lost._ A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. _Pope._ The universal cause Acts to one end, but acts by various laws. _Pope._ Vain, very vain, [the] weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind. _Goldsmith._ Creation’s heir, the world, the world is mine! _Goldsmith._ The fault ... is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. _Shakespeare (Julius Cæsar)._ The semicircular borders at either end are practically the same in color and design as in the North Corridor. At the east end, the Eastern is substituted for the Western Hemisphere, and at the west end, a caduceus and a lictor’s axe for the United States Seal. The accompanying inscriptions are as follows: Man raises but time weighs. _Modern Greek Proverb._ Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. _Bulwer Lytton._ The noblest motive is the public good. _Virgil._