hours perfecting each detail. The Remington Rand strike delayed the
delivery of the files; one of their workers was the only casualty. He cut
his head open on a shelf in Mrs. Landes’ office. The clock in the lecture
room underwent a similar misadventure. Its wires run down the wall and
under the floor to the opposite side of the room, and in bolting down
the 68 chairs one of the workmen cut the connection. This left the engji-
neer with the problem of deciding which of the eight bolts belonging to
each chair was responsible. Fortunately the incision was detected under
the second chair unscrewed. Mr. Soper suffered a truly major calamity
when the shelves in his office gave way and several hundred slides crashed
to the floor. The shelves have since been fastened more securely.
Among the blessings of the department are a dark room equipped
with a special camera to make new slides, and an electric press for dry-
mounting pictures and thus insuring them from curling in the future. More
important, the big lecture room was designed by Mr. Sloane and Mr.
Carpenter. As each part flows structurally into another, the room as a
whole is a fine example of practical and aesthetic unity. All in all, the new
wing might be considered an art major's dream. One, however, expressed
herself thus: ''l'm not sure I'm not more impressed by it than able to
work in it."
The colors in the Quita Woodward room are borrowed from the
memorial portrait by Violet Oakley of Quita as she appeared in Big May
Day. In spite of the fact that the room is so lovely undergraduates have
not misused it by studying there. So tar the only abuse, Miss Terrien con-
fides, is that ''the students will put their feet on the nice light furniture."
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