The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-05
GROUND BROKEN
 FOR BUILDING
Boston University Facul. ty, Graduates Gather
 for Today

Before a small group of alumni trustees and university officials, the first earth was turned this morning at 10: 30 on the Commonwealth ave- nue side of the new Charles River campus of Boston university for the $l ,150 900 home of the university's college of business administration. J. Willard Hayden, president of the Charles Hayden foundation, which presented s476000 to the university to provide new home for the 25- year-old college, handed to Dr Daniel L. Marsh, Boston university president, the spade with which the 6rst shovelful of earth was lifted.
 Former Governor Frank G. Allen, chairman of the board of trustees, using a walking stick from the col lection made by Dr. Marsh, and one which was added to the collec- ti> by the late Judge Alonzo R. Weed, predecessor of Governor AL len in office, indicated the spot from which the first piece of earth was to be taken.
 E. Ray Speare, treasurer of the university, lifted the second shov- elful, and Dean Everett w. Loord, dean of the colleg for which the new home will be built, thrust the third shovel into the ground. The alumni who put on the campaign to raise the funds during the last win ter, were represented by the general secretary of the University Alumni association, George A. Dunn, who lifted the fourth shovelful of earth. Then, upon invitation of the con- tractors, the Turner Construction company, represented by its vice president, William Nye, President Marsh climbed on the steam shovel and pulled the lever causing the huge scoop to dig into the spot from which the officials had moved the smaller mounds of soil.
 Chartered In '69
 Today's simple ceremonies have been eagerly awaited by the num- erous graduates and friends of the large university which, though car rying the name of the city where it is, is a privately endowed nsti- tuition, chartered in 1869. It is ex- pected that before another acade- mic year rolls around and the Uni versity graduates return for their annual get-together at commence ment time, the middle of June, that the finished building will be await ing its occupant, the college of business administration. Hence, a year from next month, when the 27th year of the college opens, stu der.ts and faculty will go into their Oun new college building.
 AO funds are received for the other university depaI :ments, they, also, will move onto the Charles River campus.
 Many local alumni committee in cities and towns throughout New England as well as in principal cities in the entire country, organized this pat winter to help raise funds for the first building to be erected on the new campus.
 The new college of business ad- ministration building will be five stories high in it's main section, and two stories high in the wing which extends towards the Charles river. This wing will house the auditorium which will have a seating capacity of 1,500. History will be made also for the college in the fact that for the first time, all of it's 16 de- paxtments will be together under one eNAf tho nf hIIci- ness research and the graduate di- vision are located two blocks away from the main building. The archi- tects' plans provide for adequate faculty office space and conference rooms, requisite of modern educa- tion, where professor and student may confer in privacy on problems of life. There will be 32 classrooms.
 Modern, up-to-date heating and lighting, and interior decorating will complete building which graduates as well as students and faculty will be proud to call home. It is des- tined to join the group of famous landmarks, and to mark the be- ginning of the university's ultimate goal, centralized campus. Thus the historic Charles river will fur nish the background for the shining walls of yet third great educational institution whose com- paratively brief lifetime of 69 years is linked irrevocably with the life of New England. The new Boston University will rise along the river bank on the opposite side and mid way between the dignified Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology to the east, and the Georgian of the Harvard buildings on the west.