WORK ON LANGDELL HALL

The above is a cut of Langdell Hall, the new Law School building which is being erected by the University on Holmes Field.

During the summer the construction of the Hall has been carried on energetically, and men are now working on the first floor of the building. The foundations have all been laid, and the Ionic columns on the front of the building are being put into place. For the present only the central part of the southern wing will be built, and they should be completed, according to the contract, by July 1, 1907.

The building will be of buff Bedford limestone, and will be classic in design. The facade, which will face east, will exhibit a row of large Ionic columns, between which there will be a light screen wall filled with windows. The central part will contain the library of the school, with the reading and lecture rooms adjacent on either side. The interior will be fireproof throughout and will be finished in quartered oak. As in the old building, the lecture rooms will be in the form of amphitheatres, with curved rows of seats rising in tiers from the lecturer's desk.

After the completion of the new building, Austin Hall will serve as a general lecture hall, and communication between the two will be by an underground corridor, on which work is progressing rapidly.