Progress of Emerson Hall.

Considerable progress has been made in the construction of the new building for the Department of Philosophy, Emerson Hall, which will form a quadrangle with Sever and Robinson Halls.

The foundations have been completed, most of the work on the interior walls of the first story has been done, and the limestone bases and trimmings are in readiness for the laying of the side walls. By the terms of the contract, the building should be completed by next fall.

Emerson Hall will be 143 feet long by 73 1-2 feet wide, three stories high, and will cost, with furnishings, about $200,000. The general type of architecture will be Greek, and the building materials brick and limestone, to correspond in effect with Robinson Hall. On the west, fronting the quadrangle, as in Robinson Hall, there will be imposing entrances, set in receding porches, and flanked by columns two stories in height.

The interior of the building will be finished mainly in oak. On the first floor, the east wing will be occupied by a large lecture room, with a seating capacity of 360, and the west wing by two smaller lecture rooms. In the rear, opposite the main entrance, there will be a large philosophical library, and on either side of the vestibule, seminar and department rooms. The second floor will contain the museum, library, study and lecture room of the division of the ethics of the social questions, the psychological library, and two class rooms. On the third floor there will be a psychological lecture room, a storage room, and twenty-two laboratories.