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 LANGDELL HALL

of the lectures in second year subjects and its reading room is supposed to be used by students of that year, for whose benefit the walls of the reading room are supplied with books as heretofore, and the stack is also provided with a large library; and Langdell Hall is devoted to lectures for first year

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completely surrounded by other buildings that no adequate view of it can be obtained from the streets. It already dominates Holmes Field, for it is the largest and most striking building there. It is at present about twice the size of Austin. When fin ally completed it will probably remain for

PROPOSED NEW BUILDING L.ngdell Hill.

students and for third year students, and its reading rooms are designed chiefly for them, and its stack holds the principal library, including duplicates of the books found elsewhere. Between Langdell Hall and Walter Hastings there is to be something like a private yard for the law school, called the Law Court. Between Langdell Hall and Pierce Hall is a much larger yard. The view of Langdell Hall from either one of these yards is impressive, but Langdell Hall is so

many years one of the largest buildings in Cambridge, for it will be at least fifty feet longer than Memorial Hall. In style of architecture and in color it differs emphat ically from all neighboring buildings. In commenting upon this diversity, an English barrister said — as doubtless many an Am erican lawyer will say — " From what I know of Professor Langdell 's .services to the law I am of opinion that a monument to him may appropriately be unique." CAMBRIDGE, MASS., May, 1908.