Queens College - Silhouette Yearbook (Queens, NY)

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The next big building to be constructed will be the new library which will be built be- hind B building. lt will have room for about three hundred thousand books lwe are now crowded with seventy thou- sandl, it will accommodate fourteen hundred students lnow three hundred and fiftyl, and it will have two large reading rooms and a huge reference room, the walls of which will be lined with the Photo by Robert Stewart

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The muscles of Queens College, the power plant and the systems of heating and electricity are being rapidly remodeled. Unnoticed by many students, a big new plant is going up behind the student building, but the one thing on campus that students cannot fail to see is the new chimney. At one time the tallest obiect at Queens was the chimney of the power plant behind the student building. How- ever, as part of the plan, a tremendous new rival is rising on the other side of the cafeteria, white-blue in color, like the Science Building, it is making students realize how small, dainty, and almost rococo is the old chimney. This old chimney has conscientiously overheated Queens College for over a decade, but now it is not efficient enough to take care of the new Queens College. The new white behemoth was, at first, nothing but an unidentified nuisance to the music classes, because the off beats of construction did not help their concentration on Hindemith, Buxtehude, and Perotin, but now is visible from all over campus. Coming up the crescent-shaped terrace from the upper campus to the student building the com-