New Grad Dormitories Named After 7 Alumni

Seven famous alumni will give their names to the new graduate school dormitories which will be ready for occupancy in September. Among them are five lawyers, who will be honored in the new Law School dorms; and a philosopher and a chemist, whose names will be used on the graduate center dorms for G.S.A.S. students. They are:

Nathan Dane 1778, a member of the Continental Congress. Dane drew up the Northwest Ordinance and was an early donor to the Law School.

Joseph Story 1798, who served at the same time as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and Dane Professor of Law.

Lemuel Shaw 1800, who drafted Boston's first charter. He was also a Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and an Overseer of the College.

James Barr Ames '68, a former Dean of the Law School and a compiler of Casebooks.

Oliver Wendell Holmes '61, former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

William James '69, the philosopher-psychologist. James founded America's first psychological laboratory and wrote influential works in the history of American philosophy.

Theodore W. Richards '36, a Nobel Prize chemist. He showed that certain kinds of lead had an unusual atomic weight because of the presence of an isotope.