LANGDELL HALL TO UNDERGO CHANGES

Plans for the new Law School buildings have just been announced by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbot, architects for the building. The new edifice, which is to be a completion of Langdell Hall, will duplicate the present structure, and in addition will have an extension running off from the completed building towards Massachusetts Avenue. This wing of the building will contain a replica of a court room, with a seating capacity of 500. There will be a new reading room to accommodate 1,000 students, and the capacity of the library stacks will be doubled. For the students and professors who are doing research work, the new building will provide ample study rooms.

The basement will contain 36 study rooms for the students doing research work, several stack rooms, like the present ones in Widener Library, and all the locker rooms. Here also will be located a large vault to protect the valuable papers and documents which the Law School possesses. For the use of those working in the library, 98 stack cubicles also will be placed in the basement.

The first floor of the new addition will provide two new lecture rooms, exact duplicates of the lecture rooms in the present building. In addition it will contain the Dean's and Librarian's offices, and several Seminar Rooms. The new West Wing which will be 114 feet long and 58 feet wide, will have on the first floor a number of professor's rooms, cataloguing and periodical rooms.

The first Mezzanine floor will contain 36 professor's offices, six Seminar rooms, and several more stack rooms. On this floor in the new West Wing addition will be located the Librarian's Administration offices.

The architects plan to remove the present book stacks on the second floor, and will make the whole floor a single reading room, with the distribution desk in the center.

In the center of this room a door will open into a large hall of the West Wing. This hall is to be an exact replica of a judiciary court, and will have in the rear of the room, a small library for the benefit of visiting judges.