The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-03
YALE'S new IMPROVEMENTS
FIRST DESCRIPTION OF HER NEW
BUILDINGS.

Magnificent Bi-Centennia1 Design
PIanned-Fentures of the Scheme
Outline ed in the Yale Alumni Weekly
The new Yale as her president and
her friends hope to see her at Bi-cen-
tennial Tin the fall of 1900, is shown in
the illustrations printed In the issue OF
the Alumni Weekly, which appeared
yesterday.
The location Of the new college square,
bounded by College, Grove, High and
Wall streets, is Of course perfectly we'll
understood by those at all familiar with
New Haven. The corner of College and
Grove is diagonally opposite the Oldest
of the Sheffield huildings-South Shelf
field Hall. The occupation of this new
square connects, in very effective way,
nearly all the territory occupied by the
university buildings. AS one starts
from Chapel street, there is, of course,
the old Campus, bounded by Chapel,
High Elm and College. Crossing Elm
street and going north, there is a Sec
ond square which is largely taken up
already by college buildings; the theo-
logical buildings occupying the side to-
ward College street, and White and
Berkeley running along High two
thirds the length of the High street
side. Another dormitory, the Fayer-
weather, will be put UP ON this square
very soon, according to the presidents
announcement.
Still moving north, the latest Yale
square is reached, on which the Bi-cen-
tennial buildings are to be placed. AS
all know. beyond this, to the north and
east, is the large square now occupied
by the Scientific school buildings,
bounded by Grove, Hillhouse avenue,
Prospect street and the railroad.
There is then a series of squares more
than half mile long occupied largely
by university buildings, and in the
course. of time, to be, undoubtedly, en-
tirey Yale property Outside of these
squares there is the Law school, whose
new building is SO near to the universe
ty group as to be practically part of
1t, the Medical school group of build
ings on the other side of Chapel street,
and Kent and Sloane laboratories, Pea
body museum, Commons and Pierson
west of the Campus, also on square
largely owned by Yale university. The
observatory building, a mile to the
north of Shelf, on Prospect street, are
the outposts, which it will probably
take some time to reach, while the gym
nasium on Elm street may stand for an
extreme in that direction for some time
The new buildings have already been
described A general statement con-
corning them, with the design, Is in or
der The three principal buildings,
whose cost President Hadley estimates
as approximately seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, are the memorial
hall or vestibule, the auditorium and
the dining hall. The auditorium, which
will run along College from the corner
of Grove and College, down to the prop
erty of the Scroll and Key society. Is
planned to seat three thousand people.
The dining hall, running along Grove
street, will contain something over ten
thousand equare feet of room, exclusive
of the serving rooms.
The connecting building on the corner
is to be the Memorial vestibule or hall
way, in which may be placed the tab
let's to the memory of Yale's most dis |
dead. This makes COM
mon vestibule for the two, SO that in !
cases of entertainment when both I
buildings are to be used, there will be