LIBRARY COMMITTEE AGREES ON BUILDING SITE
Lewis Parkhurst '78, chairman of the library committee of the Board of Trustees, has announced that at a joint meeting of the library committee of the trustees and of the faculty it was agreed to recommend to the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth that the new College library should be located in the square immediately north of the campus with three facades, one facing the campus and one towards Tuck Drive, being the two principal sides, the third one being to the east.
The committees also recommended that the fourth side should be constructed so that additions could be made in the future without inter- fering or disturbing the architectural aspects of the other three sides.
The committees' decision was confirmed, Mr. Parkhurst said, by a report made to it by Henry V. Hubbard of Olmstead Brothers, landscape architects, who visited and examined all available locations around . the college during the latter part of Christmas vacation.
The following is part of the letter which the trustees' committee received from Olmstead Brothers concerning the choice of a suitable location: "We believe that the chosen site should have the following advantages : "(1) It should be ample for the present and any reasonable predictable requirements. "(2) It should be easily accessible from dormitories, residences, recitation halls, and laboratories.
"(3) It should be dominant in location and capable of carrying a building related aesthetically and architecturally to the other buildings present and future.
"We are convinced that the site already chosen by you is the only site which combines the above requisites all in a degree which leaves little to be desired."
