Thayer School Expands

EXPANSION OF THE Thayer School of Engineering was approved by the Dartmouth Board of Trustees at its fall meeting on October 31, and ground was broken immediately for the two new wings which will house the work in mechanical and electrical engineering which Thayer School has added to its civil engineering business-engineering curricula. The new construction by the Trumbull-Nelson Company of Hanover will continue during the coming year and it is expected that by next fall the new wings will be ready for the expanded educational program which Thayer School will have in full swing by that time. Elementary studies in the new fields of electrical and mechanical engineering are already being offered and advanced work will be given next fall, according to Dean Kimball.

Addition of the two new engineering curricula marks an important growth for Thayer School, which ever since its founding 75 years ago has specialized in civil engineering. To this traditional offering Thayer before the war added the business- engineering course in conjunction with Tuck School, and the new wings of the Horace S. Cummings Memorial, into which the School moved in 1939, will now enable, it to carry out the further expansion planned under the direction of the late Dean Garran.