$2,000,000 PROGRAM FOR 1928-29 BUILDING
The building program for Dartmouth College for the coming year contemplates an expenditure of nearly two million dollars. The program, which was adopted by the Board of Trustees at its annual spring meeting will ex- ceed in scope even the magnitude of the present year's operations, which have involved the building of the New Baker Library, a Natural Science Hall, and a new dormitory.
Votes to the following effect were passed: To proceed at once this summer with the Fine Arts Building, to be erected on the site at the northwestern corner of the Library plot, and to name this "Carpenter," for Mr. Frank P. Carpenter of Manchester, the generous donor, who has proffered the funds for the erection of such a building.
To develop the plans at once and to begin construction this summer on the building to be known as Sanborn House, for the use of the English Department, which is to be erected on the site adjoining the southwestern wing of the Library. Provision was made in the will of the late Edwin Webster Sanborn for the appropriation of a sum not exceeding $400,000 for this purpose.
To proceed at once with the building of two dormitories, down Tuck Drive and to the westward of the new Gile dormitory, these to be ready for occupancy at the beginning of the College year 1929-1930. It is planned to have these two dormitories so designed as together to accommodate approximately 150 men.
To begin architectural studies and to develop plans for an additional dormitory or dormitories, construction of which was authorized for 1929-30. These are to be capable of accommodating a minimum of 175 men, at an expense, if possible, not above $300,000. Report upon the site, the plans, and the final cost of these are to be submitted to the Board at a later meeting.
To reconstruct and modernize Fayerweather Hall at a cost not exceeding $160,000. To build a group of houses about a court on the west side of North Park Street, provided with accommodations for eight families, at an approximate cost of $65,000.
To remodel Wilson Hall, formerly occupied by the library, and to reconstruct this for museum purposes, in order to properly house the Butterfield collection and other museum material, the cost of this reconstruction not to exceed $50,000.
To move the "Webster" cottage onto a location facing the Leeds house, these two, in combination with the new Clement plant house, to be developed as a court.
To reconstruct the corridors of Massachusetts Hall and to undertake a program of general repairs, at a cost of $50,000.
Action had already previously been taken, authorizing the building of a new hockey rink, in connection with the Recreational Department of the College.
