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 of the style that Harvard ever possessed. Nor was even that example preserved; for, architecturally speaking, the hall had an unhappy history. Although vastly admired at first, it soon began to get unsympathetic handling. Its correct proportions were ruined in 1845, when the rapid increase of the school compelled the addition of a transept (40 by 60 feet), larger than the original building (40 by 50 feet), at the rear, making a ground plan like a letter T. In 1871 the whole mass was moved somewhat to the south, to make room for erecting Matthews Hall. In the process, the graceful portico was ruthlessly discarded, and replaced by a squat and ugly brick vestibule. After 1883, when the school deserted it for still larger quarters in Austin Hall, the fabric was altered and realtered, added to and knocked about, for all manner of temporary purposes, including the Bursar’s office and the first home of the Coöperative Society. Finally in 1918, while its basement was filled with cartridges for the Naval Radio School, it was gutted by a mysterious fire; a few months later its walls were razed and its cellar filled in. Thus of Nathan Dane’s gift—the only building ever erected in the Yard for a professional school—not a trace remains.

In its heyday, the old or forward portion of the building was divided on both floors into four rooms, lighted by huge windows. Three of the rooms on the ground