Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-12
GILMAN HALL NAMED
 FOR SON OF NORWICH
Largest Building of the New Group
 for the Johns Hopkins University of Which He Was Long President.

Conceived in the minds of some of the best architects in the United States, and made possible by the gen. erositv of thousands of people and the state of Maryland, impressive buildings are rising on the new site of the Johns Hopkins university at Homewood Baltimore, says the BoS- ton Transcript. When completed, these buildings will comprise one of the fin- est and most stately university groups in the world But the day of com pletion is far in the future. Five years ago, even the prospect of Hop kins getting to Homewood seemed to the student and professor a pleasing but unrealzable dream. At present however, practically all of the grad ing has been done; the largest building of the group, Gilman Hall (so named in honor of the late Daniel Colt Gill man, first president of the university and a native of Norwich, Conn.) is two- thirds completed, and will be fin ished before the time stipulated in tine contract. next June. It will be the home of the library and of the human tiles, or non laboratory subjects and will cost when fully completed over s600,000
 Gilman Hall, Home of the Humanities.
 Tn Gilman Hall the Carroll Mansions prophecy has come to fulf1lment. Homelike, simple dignifed, preserv-
  it is at once marked as the capitol of the campus by the clock tower which rises 120 feet from ground level. in evitably carrying ones mind back to Independence hall. To one who be- gan as a librarian and ended an or ganizer and guide of a university, Gilman Hall will be a fitting memorial
 At the outset this building will serve essentially the same purposes as the present Mccoy hall. except that the offices of the university afAnlnistra- tion and assembly room are omitted and the department of mathematics is added Just at present it will be inn possible to have separate homes for graduate and undergraduate work which the complete plan contemplates and which it is hoped will come be- fore many years But in spite of this the hall has been arranged so that the graduate and undergraduate quar- teEs will be as distinct as possible.
 It was at first thought that the cleavage might be by floors or wings, but this was made impossible by the arrangement of the library. The square Vestbule by which the building is en- tered leads to a chamber 28 feet by 59 feet, whose function is not yet de.er- mined. Across this court is the read ing room of the library, stretching the full width of the building and having a floor space of 5000 square feet. The two ends have another story oi CT them. but the central part not thus affected is covered with an arched roof and expands westward into a semi circle, from which the botanical gar dens can be seen. There is room for an open collection around the walls of 15,000 volumes and 800 periodicals. Tn every direction stretch tables for 200 readers
 Library Stacks.
 Tn both wings of the building library stacks will run from the ground floor to the roof. With these the graduate work will be linked, each seminary being placed near the stack in which are to be found the departments books. Hence the front and rear are to be given up to undergraduate and the sides to graduate work.
 To arrange adequately for a growing library was a big problem Measure ments disclosed the fact that Mccoy hall has now five miles of shelving. Ten miles were thought to be wide provision for Homewood, but tlis meant a mile and half of depart mental walls. Hence the conclusion that the stack type is necessary and there will be pie room for the li- brary to expand to several times it's present proportions, 175. 900 volumes. In addition, the present system of having some of the works in rooms with the professors will be done away with
 For the undergraduates in Gilman Hall there have been provided twice as many classrooms as at present ranging in size from 240 to 1900 square feet. There is a 350-square-foot sem inar room for each graduate depart ment and in four cases two of them. There will also be an office for nearly every officer and instructor.
 Down in the basement there will be post office, storage rooms for the Hopkins Press, cloak rooms. barber