Carpenter Hall

Carpenter Hall, the gift of Frank P. Carpenter, Manchester, N. H., was first open for inspection Saturday afternoon of Com mencement. The building and the exhibition galleries remained open to visitors during the remainder of Commencement and the building will be open each day during the summer.

Costing $525,000, the Carpenter building is beautiful architecturally and complete in every detail. Included in the building are office rooms for members of the Department of Art, with facilities for holding seminars with students. There are also rooms set aside for the exhibition of photographs, prints, and paintings. The third floor of the main building has been arranged entirely for exhibition purposes and there are at the present time four exhibitions in progress there.

The main building also includes an art library, in which is placed the Renaissance mantelpiece from the chateau Chenonceau, France. This is the gift to the College of Robert Jackson '00, Concord, New Hampshire.

The wing of the Carpenter building consists of a basement, providing space for storage and packing, and four floors. On the first floor is located another office seminar and there is also a seminar on the second floor, together with a large lecture room seating seventy-eight students. The third floor is given over entirely to the Department of Archaeology. Here there are several offices and conference rooms for members of the faculty, seminar rooms, and a large class room. Two large studios are located on the top floor of the wing. One of these has been arranged for the use of undergraduates and an adjoining studio will be available for visiting artists. Although no regular courses of instruction in the practice of drawing and painting are offered at present, facilities are provided for students who wish to pursue these interests as an extra-curricular activity. From time to time advice and criticism may be received from visiting professionals.

The building is located at the northwest corner of the Baker Memorial Library and is connected with it by a tunnel, leading from the main part of the hall. The architecture follows that of the recent additions to the Dartmouth plant. J. Fredrick Larson, Architect of the College, designed the building.

Frank P. Carpenter, donor of the new building, is a resident of Manchester, New Hampshire, and a leading citizen of the State. He holds two honorary degrees from Dartmouth. In 1915 he was awarded the degree of Master of Arts by the College in recognition of his many good works and he was given the LL.D. at this last Commencement. He is of Dartmouth lineage and has been a life-long associate and friend of the College and of Dartmouth men. On January 9, 1928, President Ernest M. Hopkins announced at the annual dinner of the Dartmouth alumni in Manchester that Mr. Carpenter had offered funds to the College which would enable it to erect the building which was for the first time open for inspection June 15.

Several very valuable exhibitions were arranged for the opening. The Jackson collection of old masters, loaned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jackson of Concord, New Hampshire, is especially outstanding. There are in this collection fifty-six paintings, including several canvases which are of great value. The Jackson collection contains, among its most prized masterpieces, four paintings by Rembrandt, two of Stuart's, two of Romney's, as well as canvases by Velasquez, Fragonard and Corot.

There are also on exhibition in the Carpenter building several etchings by J. McN. Whistler, loaned by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The etchings comprise the famous "Thames" series. The Doll Richards galleries of Boston have loaned water colors by Dodge McKnight and others and also several etchings by Frederick H. Hall. The DownTown galleries of New York City have placed on exhibition in Carpenter the second annual American print makers collection.

WARREN S. CARTER 'lO, Re-elected to the Alumni Council from, the West- ern States District

EDGAR W. HIESTAND 'lO, Re-elected Councilor from the Rocky Mountains and Pacific States District