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 442 A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Library at the west end of the main building. In the central part of the second floor was a Memorial Hall with an adjoining trophy gallery from which doors led to the spectators' gallery of the Gym- nasium. To the east were social rooms with conveniences for serving refreshments, and to the west, offices and a large room for the corrective gymnastic work of the Department of Physical Culture. The third floor was devoted to an assembly room with stage and dressing-rooms, and a large foyer, to a sun parlor over- looking the Plaisance, and to a large office used as headquarters for women's organizations. Ida Noyes Hall was regarded as a most attractive building. Its cost exceeded half a million dollars, equipment and furnishings being included. Its dedication was made a part of the celebration of the University's twenty-fifth anniversary. What are here called the " later buildings" were not so many in number as those of the third period, but they cost their builders as much money. They added very greatly to the beauty of the campus. It is hardly too much to say that they transformed it. They fitly rounded out the first quarter-century of construction and gave the University one of the noblest groups of educational buildings in the world. The dedication of Ida Noyes Hall did not end the later period of building. In February, 1916, a subscription of two hundred thousand dollars was received by President Judson for the erection of a Theological Building. For twenty years the Divinity School had done its work in such rooms as could be given to it, in Haskell Oriental Museum, an arrangement unsatisfactory to the School and to the Museum. The School needed a building adapted to its use. The coming of the Chicago Theological Seminary to the University increased the need of a Theological Building. In adopting a program for celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary the Trustees made "an effort to obtain a building for theological instruction" a part of it. Within two months after this action was taken President Judson announced that the necessary pro- vision had been made. Work on the plans was begun without delay, and it was hoped that the anniversary to be held the first week in June would show some disturbance of the ground where the