The University's extensive building campaign which started some two years ago, and the completion of which is not expected for some two more years, is, with the opening of college this fall, at its height. The campaign, if it be considered in its entirely comprises some 16 structures and of those not already completed when college closed last spring the greater number are ready for occupancy now, or will be during this year.

The high lights of the building program are the new Business School, a college in itself, the completion of President Lowell's plan for "cloistering" the Yard the erection of another Freshman dormitory, the building of a new art museum, and the start of work on the new John W. Weeks footbridge across the Charles below the Freshman dormitories.

Classifies College Buildings

Perhaps the best way to review the construction that has take place, is taking place, and will take place, is to divide the projects into classes, arranged according to the time of their completion.

In the first class stand buildings that were first occupied by the Seniors who graduated last Spring buildings that stood ready for occupancy a year ago. There are three such buildings, and together with another one, belonging to the group that will be ready this Fall, they comprise the famous plan for cloistering the Yard first proposed two years ago by President A Lawrence Lowell and now carried out. In the second group are buildings that are now practically completed, and will be used by the college men who are returning to their work this Fall. There are five such projects. Next in order are buildings for which ground has already been broken and which will stand completed before the class of 1927 has been graduated. Three units come under this classification.

To Build New Chemical Plant

The remaining three groups comprise buildings for which ground has not yet been broken, but which are more or less assured for the very near future. In the first group are buildings for which money is already on hand and on which architects are now working to complete the final plans that will satisfy everyone--a new chemical plant to take the place of the antiquated Boylston Hall.

The next group is made up of projects for which drives for funds now exist. The Law School expansion scheme and the plan for a church that shall be a war memorial to the Harvard dead come under this classification and their sponsors are busily engaged in raising the necessary funds, architects already having drawn tentative plans.

Many Projects Are Hypothetical

And in the final group are projects about which there has been considerable talk, and which are bound to materialize before many years have rolled by but for which no funds have been raised and for which even no definite sites have been chosen. The new gymnasium to take the place of the venerable Hemenway, now some 50 years old, and the plan for a swimming pool belong to this class.

Of the buildings in the first class, those that have already seen service during the last year two are dormitories and the other is the Bursar's office Lehman Hall. All three of them are built along Massachusetts Avenue in the Yard, with the purpose of shutting off from this sphere the noise of trolley cars and increasing automobile traffic on the Square, in other words, "the cloistering program" that President Lowell initiated two years ago. Lionel and Mower are the two dormitories built in the northwest corner of the Yard, and flanking Holden Chapel the first religious center of the University, on both sides. Mower, together with Phillips Brooks Brooks House, Stoughton Hall and Holden form a quiet quadrangle that seems miles away from the bustle of Massachusetts Avenue, and Lionel forms another such quadrangle with Holden, Hollis and Harvard Hall.

Lehman Hall Shelters Yard

Lehman Hall, the new Bursar's office, now about a year old, and belonging to this same group, is situated at the corner of the Yard, directly opposite subway entrance at Harvard Square. Like all the buildings erected for the purpose of rendering the academic sanctity of the Yard soundproof, it is built within a few foot of the Yard fence, and accomplishes its purpose in spite of the fact that the Square and Massachusetts Avenue at this point are about the noisiest places in Cambridge if Central Square is excepted.

Lehman Hall is the last of the group of buildings that were completed a year ago. With them, with the exception of the spot opposite Matthews Hall, the whole Yard was cloistered, and the final screen, Straus Hall, is the first buildings of the second group--those buildings that are now completed, and which will be occupied for the first time this September. With it is cloistering plan is fulfilled.

Straus Completes Third Quadrangle