New-York tribune., 1922-11-12
Columbia to Spend
Sc veral Millions
For New Buildings
| ll-Story Residence Hall for
Women Students Will Be
Built at Once il Bids for
OperationAre Satisfactory

Columbia University's huge building
program, involving, as outlined by
President Nicholas Murray Butler, the
expenditure of several millions of dol
lars, to meet the urgent physical de
mands of the institution, is we'll under
way.
1t was announced yesterday by Pres-
dent Butler that the trustees had given
authority to call for bids for the con-
structlon and equipment ofaa residence
hall for women to be placed on the
easterly edge Of the campus, on East
Field, directly west of the presidents
house and the faculty house, now ap-
pr" "N .'7~ completion. If the bids are
satisfactory work will be begun at once
IN tne nope of having the building
ready for occupancy in twelve months.
The plans of the university's archi-
tocts McKim Mead G. White, call for
building eleven stories and basement
t'gn In the central portion, ard nine
stories and basement in each of the
two wings. The building will be 201
feet long and SO feet wide, running
from ll6th to 117th street, facing west.
1t will provide dormitory accomm oda-
tions for 365 women students, together
with sufficient number of rooms for
social and administrative purposes and
/ for an infirmary.
Provision is made for capacious
dining hall, and those who have rooms
in this dormitory will also take their
meals there: On the first and second
floors of the north wing provision is
made for the Women's Faculty Club,
which will thereby be brought n i'm
mediate proximity to the Mems Faculty
Club at the corner of 1f7th Street and
n I1t,, 4
this residence hall will set free Morris
and Tompkins halls, on Claremont Ave
nue., for men students in the graduate
and professional schools, large num-
bers of whom are awaitino nrnv sion
by the university for their housing.
Need of More Room
tories at Columbia University, at Bar
nard College and at Teachers College
is occupied, and hundreds of applicants
could not be provided for. The steady
growth of Columbia as resident uni
versity, resorted to by students from
all parts of the country, and, indeed,
from all parts of the world, is called
one of the most striking incidents in
Columbia's recent history.
The trustees have also approved
plans for the erection of the school
VI BUSINESS DullulUS 10 occupy bne site
on the quadrangle at the corner of
10th Street and Broadway. This build
ing will be made ready for occupancy
in the summer of 1924. Work upon
this site cannot, however, be begun
for several months, since the building
now occupied by the Faculty Club, will
be in use for that purpose until the
new Faculty house is ready for oc-
cupancy, about February l, 1923. The
school of business building will con-
tain an auditorium in the form of 8
theater that will seat 1,4O0 persons
and will greatly relieve the present
pressure on the existing university
buildings for classrooms and lecture
rooms.
Work upon the building program
outlined sopc time ago by President
Butler is steadily progressing, and
plans for other buildings, notably for
buildings for chemical engineering
and for chemistry and for students
hall, to be placed on the south side of
South Field, are well advanced toward
completion.