HEALTH HOUSE GIVEN BY MR. AND MRS. HALL

At a smoker of the junior class President Hopkins announced the gift to the College of a health house in memory of a former member of that class, Dick Hall, through the generosity of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Hall of Montclair, N. J.

The house is to be built in proximity to the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, and it is to be devoted to the care of undergraduates who are ill or slightly indisposed, and to provide surroundings congenial and attractive to them. It will contain 40 beds.

Mr. and Mrs. Hall have already given a fund of $150,000 and further have offered to supplement this in such degree as may prove necessary to carry out their conception in perfect detail. Mr. Hall is himself a graduate of Dartmouth College, of the class of 1892, vice-president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, a former trustee of the College, and present chairman of the Football Rules Committee. Mrs. Hall is a daughter of Irving W. Drew, Dartmouth '7O and a native of Lancaster, N. H. Their son, Dick, died in his sophomore year. He was a popular undergraduate, member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and in terested in a variety of activities. His class will lay the cornerstone of Dick Hall's House in June.

A building of the club house type, of Colonial architecture in character with other college buildings, is to be erected. The site will probably be on Rope Ferry road, north of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. <The house is to be treated as a separate unit, liberally supplied with sun-rooms and will be landscaped and designed to present the atmosphere of a home or social club rather than that of an institution. It is the hope of Mr. and Mrs. Hall that the house may be so placed that men temporarily resident there will not feel themselves apart from the life of the College and that they will be so near one of the paths of undergraduate travel that the friends of boys who are ill will find it convenient and natural to drop in for frequent visits.

A passageway will connect the building to the! hospital. This makes available the many facilities of a large hospital, one excellently equipped to minister to the needs of the people of northern New Hampshire and Vermont. All technical means for health conservation resident in a great hospital will be available to the resident of Dick Hall's House, without these facilities intruding on the atmosphere of th« house or detracting from its feeling of a social club.

One of the interesting features planned in connection with it will be the appointment of a house mother who will concern herself with the social characteristics of the house. She will be a hostess responsible for making life in the house enjoyable and for making it attractive alike to students and to visitors. Rooms will be provided as accommodations for parents on the first floor. Besides these two guest rooms there will be a suite for the house mother, a large living room for students and their guests, as well as rooms for doctors and for the head nurse respectively.

On the second floor will be four small ward rooms connecting with two sun rooms. In addition to these the plans provide for five private rooms and of course the necessary service, rooms.

On the third floor will be an attractive observation ward in which doubtful cases can be observed and secluded from the rest. It will have its special service rooms and facilities for being completely isolated, if necessary. On this floor will be another ward room and two additional sun rooms. An elevator connects the three floors.

The gift is of the greatest importance to the College, for it provides an attractive house with 40 beds where students will be cared for it they have the slightest indisposition. It is essentially a health protection unit of the college plant. Architecture, staff organization, and arrangement of rooms have all been defined by the spirit in which the gift was presented and by the desires of the donors. It will be attractive, comfortable and health promoting.