Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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right will he located the main reading room, two stories high, which will accommodate 300 persons. The rear of all floors will be devoted to the administration department of the library. The ground floor will contain the receiving room and bindery, the main floor the offices, order department and cataloguing room, while on the top floor will be a lunch and rest room for the library staff. The women's dormitory was started in May, 1917, and still is in the course of construction. When completed it will cost $309.000 00. There arc to be 213 bedrooms, thirty-nine studies, a library, dining rooms, two reception rooms, a living room, music room, office, kitchens, etc. The building is being finished in a pale pink hue. The building will be ready for occupancy in the next fall quarter. The President’s Mansion is the latest of the four buildings to have been completed, the finishing touches having been put on in May. The building was designed by L. C. Mullgardt, who was the Imposition architect and in color it recalls San Francisco's imposition. However, as it stands out against the skyline on the hill overlooking the Row and Quad one is reminded of an ancient castle. The cost of the new presidential home is $107,125.00. It has thirty-four rooms. It will have rather a bath and room effect with its fourteen bath rooms. A portion of the building will be used for University functions. banquets and the like. The Art Gallery, which has been in use since October, 1917, was built from funds made available by Thomas Wclton Stanford of Australia, the brother of Governor Stanford. Its cost was $88,000.00. CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW LIBRARY THE PRESIDENTIAL MANSION

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CAMPUS BUILDINGS MORI - than a million dollars' worth of new buildings stand nearly completed since the Hoard of Trustees inaugurated its building program in May, 1916. The exact amount that will have been spent on the buildings when they are completed is $1,124,125.00. There are four buildings: The Library, Women's Dormitory, President’s Mansion and the Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery. The Library is the latest of the four buildings. Construction work began in August, 1917, and the building still is in the course of construction. The cost, including the stacks, will be $620,000.00. The huge building will be the central structure of the new Quadrangle. The library is being so constructed that its ultimate capacity will be a million volumes. Three tiers arc to be built at first, each tier having a capacity of 95.000 volumes. The building will be adequate for fifty years. The present library contains about 250.000 volumes, and has an annual growth of 15,000. The new building will have the predominating buff sandstone walls and tiled .roof. but will vary from the old Quadrangle buildings in its arched arcades, buttresses and the projection of a portion of the main building forward to the outer arcade line. There will be three main floors and a basement for storage. To the left upon entering will be found the bookstacks, rising the entire height of the room. To the THOMAS WELTON STANFORD ART MUSEUM THE WOMEN S NEW DORMITORIES

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THE FACULTY AI M IX1 STRATI V K OFFICERS Ray Lyman Wilbur. President. ♦ B K A. B., A. M., Stanford; M. Cooper. Orrin Leslie Elliott, Registrar. 4» B K Ph. B., Ph. I).. Cornell. George Thomas Clark, Librarian. B. S.t California. •George Archibald Clark. Academic Secretary. AY; 51 S B. L., M. A., Minnesota. John Ezra McDowell, Assistant Registrar and Alumni Secretary. 4 A 0 A. B., Stanford. David Charles Gardner, Chaplain. Louis H. Eaton, Organist. Harriet Bradford. Dean of Women. A. B.. Bryn Mawr. Elizabeth Burritt Snell, Appointment Secretary. A. B., Stanford. Helen Ella Trie. Secretary to the President. A. B.. Mount Holyoke. Wayne Leslie Miller. Student Adviser. Pedro J. Lemos, Curator of Museum. Gertrude Gardiner, Matron of Roble Hall. EM ER ITUS PROFESSORS David Starr Jordan, Chancellor Emeritus. AY; H: «t B K M. S.. Cornell; M. D., Indiana Medical Colley; Ph. D.. Butler; LL.D., Cornell. Johns Hopkins, Illinois College. Indiana. California. Western Reserve. John Casper Bran nee, President Emeritus. AY; 5) H; 4» B K B. S.. Cornell; Ph. D.. Indiana; LI- I).. Arkansas. Marysville College. California ; D. Sc.. Chicago. Melville Best Anderson. Professor of English Literature. Emeritus. «t B K A. M.. Butler; LL. D.. Aberdeen. Adolph Barkan. Professor of Structure and Diseases of Eye, Ear, and Larynx, Emeritus. N 2 N M. D.. Vienna; LL. D„ Glasgow. James Owen Griffin. Professor of Gtrman. Emeritus. A Y Manslield State Normal School. Deceased, April 20, 1918.