Convert to Coal

THE SAVING OF approximately a million gallons of fuel oil a year will be effected by the College through its expected conversion of four oil-burning boilers to coal. This conversion, putting about onehalf of the heating plant's capacity on coal, has not been completed, due to delay in deliveries, but it is expected to be finished by the time cold weather sets in.

This move is the only major plant change which the College has had a chance to make during the summer, with undergraduates and the Naval Training School in attendance almost continuously. In connection with the Navy dormitories, the department of buildings and grounds has installed additional toilet facilities in Top-liff and has provided study desks and fluo rescent lamps in all rooms of the five dormitories occupied by the Navy. Student officers in the second unit, starting September 18, will study in their rooms rather than in Rollins Chapel, which will be used this session for classrooms instead of study hall. The making of 400 double-decker beds out of 800 single beds has also been completed by the College for the second session of the Naval School.

With rooming facilities adequate but extremely tight from now until the senior class graduates in December, the College has cleaned up and reopened old Hallgarten Hall, to be used as an emergency dormitory for the time being. "Hell-gate," as it is known to Dartmouth students of former days, has been used as a College storehouse for a number of years.