The final plans of Emerson Hall, which were prepared by Mr. Guy Lowell '92, were approved Monday by the Corporation, and the contract for its construction will be let within a few days. The building will be erected on the site occupied in part by Professor Shaler's house, which is now being moved to a position between its present location and President Eliot's residence, and will form a quadrangle with Sever and Robinson Halls. It will be 143 feet long by 73 1-2 feet wide, three stories high, and will cost with furnishings about $200,000. The general type of architecture will be Greek, and the building materials brick and limestone to correspond in effect with Robinson Hall. The entrances, which will front the Yard and the quadrangle as in Robinson Hall, will be in style receding porches with brick columns two stories in height, and should prove very imposing.

The interior of the building will be finished largely in oak. The first floor will be devoted to the philosophical department and will contain a library, a study, a large lecture room with capacity of 200, and five class rooms. On the second floor will be the museum, library, study, and lecture room of the department of the ethics of the, social questions, the psychological library, and two class rooms. The third floor will contain the psychological lecture room and 23 small workrooms.

A heroic statue of Emerson, provided for by the late Francis Boott '31, is now being made by Mr. Frank Duveneck of Covington, Kentucky, and will be placed on the first floor facing the main entrance.