BUILDING OPERATIONS

In recent years Hanover has been in a constant state of transformation, owing to the new building projects. The alumnus who returns as often as once a year must spend his first few moments on the campus,, trying to adjust himself to the changes that have occurred since his last visit. This fall the most striking alteration consists in the rapid progress of construction work on Robinson Hall, which now stands with the outer shell complete in the place of Sanborn Hall, and crowding up against the Bank Building, as if impatient of the progress on the new Bank Building on South Main Street.

Hitchcock Hall is already occupied by students, and sheltered the visiting alumni on Dartmouth Night. The new faculty apartment houses, "Parkside" and "Thayer Lodge", the old building of the Thayer School remodeled, are. also completed and fully rented.

To increase the efficiency of the Observatory, a small building for the new five-inch equatorial telescope has been erected on the hill back, of the older Observatory. This building which, like the telescope, is the gift of Dr. Frederick C. Shattuck of Boston, is intended for use by the students at any time in the night when the larger Observatory may not be available.

Through the generosity of Mr. Tuck, it becomes possible to complete at once the new road through the Hitchcock estate to the Ledyard Bridge. The preliminary survey for this road has already been made, and it is probable that construction work will begin in the spring.