Improvements During Summer

Several changes and improvements have been made throughout the University grounds and buildings during the summer. In Thayer, Perkins, and Conant Halls, common living and smoking rooms have been established. In Thayer, room 3 has been chosen for the living room and the partition between the study and bedroom has been removed. Electric lights and steam heat have been added and the small grate fire place has been enlarged so that wood instead of coal may be used for fuel. A week will in all probability be necessary for completion. In Conant, rooms 1 and 2 on either side of the hall have been thrown together. The study of room 3, which has been cut off from the bedroom, opens directly into the living room, and will be used as a library and office. A hard wood floor is being laid, electric lights are being installed, and more extensive furnishings will be added within a week. Heavy glass doors will separate the living room from the rest of the building, and a small telephone booth will adjoin. The common room in Perkins, comprising rooms 1 and 2 in the south end of the building, is not so far advanced. It is built on the same plan as that in Conant; the hall running through the middle, but opening on either side with deeply cut arch-ways. The Wig Club of the Law School will occupy room 2 in Gannet House as a club room.

A plan for heating by means of hot water has been placed in both Perkins and Conant Halls, and four set bowls have been added to each of the bathrooms of the latter building. Minor changes as regards ventilation have also been made in Boylston Hall.

Owing to its poor acoustic properties room 3 in Emerson Hall has been divided into two distinct parts.

At the instigation and partial expense of the University a new asphaltic paving has been laid on Cambridge street and Broadway, extending from the Gymnasium to Quincy street. The paving is somewhat different from that made with ordinary asphalt and is unusually durable. It will do away with the large puddles of water that gather along Broadway, near the entrance to Memorial Hall.