The anonymous $100,000 gift for Cornell dormitories, recently made public by Chairman George C. Boldt of the trustee committee on residential halls, comes as a startling fulfilment of hopes long cherished by undergraduates and friends of the institution. The donation is only a tithe of the sum needed to complete the dormitory system planned, but it is being received as a significant beginning. Contracts are to be lot at once and work begun before fall.

Plans have long been drawn for a series of residential halls which would accommodate 1200 men, or the usual freshman class. They will be erected on the area known as the Library Slope, a piece of land 650 feet by 1100 feet, sloping gently down from the quadrangle on the plateau, and giving an uninterrupted view of Cayuga Lake and valley.

A marked departure from the usual dormitory scheme will be made, in that the halls will be built in scattered units accommodating about fifty men each. They will be in English Collegiate Gothie style of rough stone and artistically grouped on the slope. Several halls or commons will be provided for each.

The sum already donated will probably not provide for more than one or two units, accommodating not more than one hundred men. The scheme, however, makes it possible gradually to add to the dormitories as additional sums are obtained. Within ten years it is hoped that it will be possible to take care of the freshman class. Without relying on local rooming houses which have proved such a vexing problem in the past.

The Cornell University Athletic Association by its annual Spring Day Show this year raised over $4,000 for the benefit of athletics. The combined carnival and circus on the campus took place on the morning before the triangular regatta, when there were thousands of visitors in town, and the gross receipts in that time were $5,700. This breaks all records for the annual show.