EXTENSIVE BUILDING PROGRAM UNDER WAY IN HANOVER

What is without any question the most extensive building program ever seen in Hanover is progressing on schedule and when completed will alter the appearance of the town materially. The College is erecting a new dormitory, Gile Hall, a natural science building, and a botanical building in addition to the Baker Library, which is nearly completed. Plans are also being drawn for several other additions to the physical plant, including the Carpenter Fine Arts building, the hockey rink, and three faculty houses.

Moving the books from Wilson Hall to the Baker Library is now in progress and early in March the old library will be entirely vacated and students will procure volumes in the basement of the new building. The upper floors will not all be opened before the dedication of the Library at Commencement but the stacks are accessible from the basement. Two reading rooms will be available in the near future.

The interior of Wilson Hall will be slightly renovated to take care of some of the material now kept in Butterfield Museum, chiefly that used for purposes of exhibition. The apparatus and laboratory equipment in Butterfield will be moved into the new science building during the spring vacation, when the new fourstory home of biology, geology, and geography will be completed.

Butterfield will be torn down after the Easter recess and, with the removal of several houses to the north and west of the new library, this will leave the church, Webster Hall, and the Baker library standing alone in the whole block. Gile Hall stands to the west of Hitchcock on Tuck Drive. The schedule of the program calls for its completion early in the spring.