New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-01-25

are now literally sprinkled This has neces
sarily brought about in the scientific school
different undergraduate life from that in the
academic department, where the societies are
rather clubs of elected from each class on
the ground of merit than social organizations,
and where their halls never used except Tor
meetings Until now the poor student in Shelf
who has been unable to belong to one or
the five societies that have erected clubhouses
has missed great part of that college life
which is so important part of the older de-
partment. 1t has kept the undergraduates OF
the two departments separated also 10 con-
siderable extent, although Shelf. men make
up an important part of the membership OF the
various university athletic associations. With
the introduction of a dOrmitory system and a
Shelf. campus a large body of men in the
school will annually get campus room privileges
and new era will be started Tor the uiuer-
graduates in social life.
Mr. Vanderbilt's purchases now include most
of the block bounded by Wall, Grove. Temple
and College SITS. the remaining plots of ground
being unessential to the immediate carrying out
of the extended dormitory system which 1T is Mr..
Vanderbilt's plan to present ultimately to SheH.
Purchase of property to complete the square
will not be made for some time, as the
scientific school trustees are not ANXIOUS 10
hurry the completion of the plan 1t is the
purpose of the school to inclCse ultimately this
block with dormtories, all of which will have
interior COURTS interconnecting and opening into
an interior campus. There will be room enough
on the block to afford a large interior campus,
which will be, according to the architects plans
the most beautiful campus at Yale.
The first of the Vanderbilt dormitories is al
ready begun and will face Wall-st., extending
from st. Anthony's Society Hall nearly to
Tempe-st., with a frontage of about 200 feet 1t
will be among the most beautiful of 1ale's
dOrmitory buildings, corresponding in architect
ure to the present Vanderbilt Hall on the college
campus facing Chapel-st., which was the gift
to Yale in 1893 from Mr. and Mrs Cornelius
Vanderbilt 1t will be built of buff Indiana
limestone and will be in the English Gothic
style of architecture. The south, or Wall-st,
front will have two projecting wings similar
to those of the academic building, and will have
long stone and iron fence separating it from
the street, the college campus In the
middle of the WaIl-st. front there will be low
massive tower, through which vaulted pas
sageWay will lead 10 the interior courtyard
On the campus front of the building, which will
be its real front, though turned inward from the |
street. will be two projecting staircases one on
either flank The construction will be hreproof !
all of the floors being of iron in
cased in concrete and the roofs covered with
glazed Spanish corrugated tiles
There will be fifty apartments in the first OF
these two new Vanderbilt dormitories, accom-
seventy students. Each study will be
lighted by electricity, and all the rooms of the
both studies and single apartments,
will have cheerful freplaces, which undergrad
yates prize highly.
Both the two new Vanderbilt dormitores Will |
be, like the academic one. plain but massive in
and of style of architecture which
gives Yale distinction for the harmony and |
beauty of its dormitory buildings. The college
dormitory will be similar in style to the Wall
st. building. with interior court, opening
into the general campus that is planned. 1t will |
stand between Byers Hall and the ST. Anthony's
Society Hail. and Will have College-st. 'front.'