St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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basis than it has hitherto enjoyed. Two new buildings have been erected,-Woodward Hall, named for Mr. James T. Woodward, through whose aid the building was made possible, and the new dining-hall which was built in 1903 with the money appropriated by the Legislature of 1902. A more prosperous era seems to have dawned upon St. J ohn's, and she bids fair to assume that high position among colleges of the United States which she so well deserves. , 24

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The New Dining .Hall i ll.l1-11 Situated a little to the rear and between the halls of Pinkney and McDowell is the handsome new Dining-Hall, and Senior dormitory combined. In its completeness and beauty it is the pride ofthe College. The Legislature of 1902, recognizing the long-felt need of new quarters for the College Club, appropriated 315,000 for the erection of the building shown in the accompanying cut. The plans were drawn by T. Henry Randall of New York City, whose acquaintance with the venerable age of St. John's and the Colonial City in which it is situated,well fitted him for the important responsibility of maintaining its Colonial style of architecture. Including the basement, or kitchen floor, the building gis four stories in height. It is built of specially made brick, and roofed with slate. From 511 sides its exterior presents a pleasing appearance. Its gracefully curved windows and tapering roof make it an impos- ing structure. ' . The main entrance faces due West, and is on a level with the new terrace which was built last summer, .directly inthe rear of McDowell Hall. Entering the vestibule of the dining-room, one sees to the left a broad stairway adorned' withigraceful banistcrs, leading to the dormitories above. These rooms are newly furnished, each is provided with two clothes lockers, and light brown shades are at all the windows. At the head of the stairs is a suiteiof rooms intended for the instructor in charge. Only Seniors live in the building. The dining-room is sixty feet in length and fifteen feet in height. It is ornamented with twelve Corinthian columns, a handsome fireplace and hand-carved mantle. There are twelve heavy oak tables with Cxford benches. All the woodwork, including the floor, is stained a 'dark brown bog-oak. The wallsnare richly papered in green and the ceiling is calcimined in the same color. A , I XLarge swinging doors open into a serving room which is to..be provided with steam tables and other conveniences for the 'better preparation of food. From these doors the dining-room with its snow-white tables present a beautiful picture, perhaps unequalled by any college, dining-room in the country. From the serving room descent is made to the kitchen. .Here is a modern twelve-foot range with broiler and hot water tank attached. On each' side ofthe basement passage to the kitchen there are three rooms, on the right is a waiter's room, store-room, and cold storage, on the left a cook's room, baker's room, and linen room. In the rear of the kitchen is the bakery, well equipped with utensils and a portable-bake-oven. This oven is built of brick, in a solid steel case g it weighs twelve thousand pounds and can do the baking for three hundred persons daily. By the side of the' bakery is the coal bin with af capacity of forty tons. 'The entire cost of this building and furnishings was about 330,000 26