The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-03
YALE UNIVERSITY.

Amplitude of the Building Projects-Th
 Twilight of Trumbull Gallery-Tt
 Origin, History, and Uses.
 The amplitude of the new building
 plans indicates that during the coming
 five years there will be more physica
 changes at Yale University than dur
 ing any equal period in it's history
 large as were the additions, in build
 ings during the first half of the term
 of President Dwight, who in that time
 saw the old brick row almost extirpat- ed and the grand new quadrangle near ly completed. But the first five years of the Hadley administration will all most certainly witness a great advance towards completion of two new quad rangles on the north, and the graduate of the 1905 will at least be able to ob- tain vivid idea of how the new quad rangles will look when they are finally filled up with new structures. There can be little doubt that a somewhat ex- tensive scheme for new dormitories is under consideration in connection with the academic department, and the plan may expand soon so as to include the Scientific School and even one or two university dormitories.
 Of the new quadrangles the first to be completed now seems likely to be that bounded by College, Grove, High and Wall Streets-a quadrangle which by the outer building line measure ments is about 490 feet east and west and about $40 feet north and south. As the great bi-centennial building with it's double frontage of about 500 feet is university structure, it probably stands on what is to be kind of uni versity quadrangle, forecast between the college and the Scientific School, and by the presumptive choice of part of the Wall Street front as a site for the administration building given by the Misses Stokes. The light stone to be used for the bicentennial building, and of which Scroll and Key Hall is built suggests the prevailing tint in the future quadrangle. The bicentennial building, will, incidentally, have certain merits of destruction as well as con- struction. It's erection means the de- unolition of from ten to twelve old dWGllluSS, llOiC OI tliClll dlS lId many of them so squalid and unsightly as to degrade the region in which they stand. Expanding Yale signifies not merely the extension of positive archi- 4ectural beauty, but the extinction of many of the low and dirty structures which have so long marred the campus neighborhood.
 Some new details of the bicentennial building are at hand. The dining-hall on Grove Street will be rectilinear in form and will accommodate, according to one plan 800 students, and according to another 1,200, the latter figures repre- senting it's largest possible capacity. The auditorium on College Street will also berectilinear with 5000 seats repre- senting its largest capacity, including the two galleries. There is to be al en- trance, perhaps somewhat ornate, to the new quadrangle on Wall Street, about midway between High and College, and the vista, heretofore described, will reach from near Elm Street up to the colonnade of the dining-hall, a distance of some 800 feet. The court of the northern quadrangle will naturally be the chief gathering place of alumni af- ter 1901 and the old campus, where the graduates have gathered for two cen turies will be, relatively speaking, a deserted spot. The change in that re- epect will be an impressive one, still further deepened by, the disappearance of the last survivors of the old brick row. As a general university building only, the library will be left on the pristine campus, as the present alumni hall is pretty sure either to be put to uses exclusively for the academic de- pertinent or to be supplanted by a more dignified and utilitarian. l
 It is stated that the new administra ton building will be called Woodbridge | Hall to commemorate the Rev. Timothy Woodbridge, one of the original trustees