ACTUAL WORK ON ADDITION TO LANGDELL HALL BEGUN

The first actual work on the $1,500,000 enlargement, of Langdell Hall was started last week and operations began in earnest yesterday when two steam shovels began the excavations for the foundations.

Approximately 18,000 square yards of earth will have to be removed before the construction work can get under way. An area almost twice that of the Langdell Hall as it now stands will be dug to a depth of between 9 and 16 feet.

The contractors who are carrying on the excavating for the architects, Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbot, estimate that their work will be completed in four or five weeks, depending upon the weather. Another steam shovel will be put into use today, bringing the total dirt removing capacity of the three machines to 1500 or 1800 square yards of earth a day.

The contract calls for completion of the new structure, which will make Langdell Hall roughly three times its present size, before September 1, 1929.