HOLYOKE HOUSE IMPROVED

Summer improvements in the University plant were centred chiefly in Holyoke House, where an electric passenger elevator running up through the old stair well and a system of hot water heating have been installed. Additional lights in the corridors, remodelled bathrooms, and a complete renovation of all the rooms have still further changed the interior of the building and have put it on a par with Little's Block for convenience of location and accommodations in the rooms. On the Massachusetts Avenue side of the building new double sashes have been added to the windows to lesson noise from the street. All these improvements, involving an outlay of about $10,000, have been met by a small increase in the price of rooms.

In front of the Hemenway Gymnasium there is a new bronze statue, a replica of the "Discobolus" of the Vatican. A handsome pedestal of Italian marble completes the gift, which came from E. W. Longfellow '65, a nephew of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow '59. The arch at the entrance of Appleton Chapel has been adorned with a small fragment of an archway from St. Saviour's Church in Southwark, England, in which John Harvard was baptized.

The reading room in Gore Hall has an enlarged delivery desk which will facilitate the handling of books, and the offices of Mr. Lane in the west wing have been improved. Minor changes on the top floor of University Hall and renovations in Lawrence Hall are the less important items.