New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-02

PROGRESS OF WORK ON THE STRUCT-
URES STARTED AFTER THE b.
CENTENNIAL - FORMING A
QUADRANGLE.

New Haven. Conn, Nov. 1.-Yale University
is in the midst of a most active building
era, following the unusual increase of the ma
terial side of the university, which was ushered
in by the bicentennial last October. Besides the
finishing touches which are being given 70
the bicentennial group of buildings, plans are
being matured for the continuation of this group
around a plaza, memorial quadrangle; the
Yale Medical School is beginning the erection
of new series of buildings in Cedar-st.. and
Sheffield Scientific School is about to start the
new dormitory system which will in time form
campus for that department. Besides these
large plans the academic department will soon
begin the erection of Lampson Hall, official
home for the dean OF the college to be paid for
by the large LampsOn estate. and the scientific
department will Immediately begin the con-
struction of the Kirkland Laboratory. at
HiIlhouse-ave. and GrOve-st
The main interest in Yales building plan Just
now centres in the bicentennial group and the
proposed plaza or new quadrangle, which it is
to surround. and the Medical School Clinical
Building, which has just been opened. The
Clinical Building is the first of the buildings
which will within the next half dozen years
transplant the Medical School from it's present
location. in COllege-st., TO Cedar-st mile south
of the college and opposite the New-Haven Hos
pital in which the students act as assistants in
their upper class year. The Clinical Build
ing is stated by experts in medical school archi-
lecture to be one of the best equipped structures
of the kind in America. IL stands at Congress-
ave. and Cedar-st., and will be the most south
ery of the row of buildings which are planned
1t is of brick, with all the appliances and ac-
cOmmodations for the most modern courses in
surgery and medicine. On the lower floor is
the entrance hail. with waiting rooms for
patients and students. besides laboratories and
druggist rooms. On the second floor is the clinic
where operations are conducted by the profess
sors of surgery. with gallery for students. On
this floor are also the private operating rooms
retiring apartments for patients and classrOoms
on the upper floor are more laboratories and
lodging rooms for students of the school. The
appurtenances of the building are of the most
modern pattern, and have been adopted by
architects generally embodying the best re-
suits of medical school building plans.
The most remarkable of the new buildings at
Yale however. are the dining hall, memo
rial vestbule and WOOlsey Auditorium, which
compose the bicentennial group. subscribed for
by the graduates of Yale from all parts of the
United States, and built as their gift to the
university. This group is by far the most i'm
losing of any thus far built by Yale. Ii covers
all but "a few yards of two sides of one of the
largest city blocks. extending from near High
St, in GrOVe-st., to COlege-st., and then from
the corner of College and Grove SITS down Col
lege-st. to within short distance of WaII-st
The dining hall, in GroVe-St. TANKS the nev
marble secret society building owned by Book
and Snake. of the Scientific School. and extends