The needs of the College and of the various undergraduate organizations, as well as those of advanced and research workers in the fields of Chemistry and Physics, were carefully studied. The work of excavation for the new Chemical and Physical Laboratory buildings has been begun and every effort will be made to have them ready for use at the opening of the Summer Session of 1926. When these buildings are ready, it will be possible to transfer to Fayerweather Hall the Departments of History, Economics, and Social Science, thus leaving Kent Hall for the sole occupancy of the Departments of Public and Private Law, as was contemplated at the time of its construction. The resulting gains to the work of the University will be enormous.

There should be no farther delay in beginning the construction of Students' Hall on South Field at Amsterdam Avenue and 114th Street, the need for which is imperative. The plans as finally revised are admirable and the building is one which ought to have been in place at least ten years ago. It is difficult to see how the Dean and the Faculty of the College have been able to bring the College to its present state of excellence and to keep it there, without the facilities which this building will afford. Until resident undergraduate students can dine together in hall, and until their various organizations, social, literary, debating, athletic and other, can be given accommodations on the Campus and in a building devoted to College purposes, the work and the influence of the College must be crippled and halted. Both faculty, students, and alumni understand the need for this building and its purposes, and are earnestly pressing for its immediate construction. Since the plans are now ready, work can be promptly begun in order that the building may be ready for occupancy before the opening of the academic year in September, 1926.

This building might appropriately be named in honor of John Stewart Kennedy, Trustee of the University from 1903 until his death in 1909, whose original and anonymous gift of $500,000 for the benefit of Columbia College made possible the building of Hamilton Hall in 1906. Mr. Kennedy's subsequent benefactions, which now amount in all to nearly three million dollars, not only constitute one of the greatest gifts ever received by Columbia University, but, because of Mr. Kennedy's knowledge of our affairs and needs and his own commanding position in the world of business, they have made it easier for other important benefactions to come to Columbia.

But the end is not yet. When these great buildings are all in place, there will remain the need, which has heretofore been presented and emphasized, for a building to contain the Chemical Engineering Laboratories that will occupy the site on Broadway and 120th Street. Chemical Engineering has become one of the most important and scientifically productive of University departments, and if it is to keep pace with the demands made upon it and if its work is to be worthy of the University, this building must be erected in the immediate future. Then there is University Hall, which has stood uncompleted for more than a quarter century, every foot of which is urgently required for administrative offices and for reading-rooms and libraries. The University Library is the working laboratory not of any one department alone, but of all departments, and it is constantly resorted to and used by tens of thousands of students who crowd its reading-rooms, its alcoves, and its studies. So long as University Hall is unfinished, it remains a scar upon the otherwise beautiful Quadrangle, while the Library carries on its indispensable work under the severest handicaps.

Moreover, the work in the biological sciences calls for the erection of a specially planned and specially lighted building for the purposes of advanced instruction and research in Botany, Zoology, and their immediately related subjects, such as has heretofore been described in the Annual Reports. A suitable site for this building is that on the west side of the Quadrangle where the building would balance Avery Hall on the east side. An alternative site which would, however, involve a more costly building, would be that on Amsterdam Avenue immediately north of Schermerhorn Hall, where any new laboratory building would balance the new building to contain chemical laboratories which is already under way.

Thirty years ago, when the present University buildings were planned, it never occurred to anyone that the work of the Department of English and Comparative Literature would require a building of its own. In the interval, however, this Department has become one of the largest, if not the largest, in the entire University. In the field of writing and the drama alone, it is now conducting some forty courses, with a total registration of more than 1400 students. The various classes are most inadequately provided for in Hamilton, in Philosophy, or wherever an unassigned room can be found. The courses of instruction are now distributed through as many as five different buildings and often in rooms in no wise designed or equipped for work in a literary subject. There are already as many as two hundred graduate students in attendance upon a single lecture course and the enrollment is steadily growing. The members of the Department themselves are scattered over the entire campus in a way that makes it very difficult to establish and maintain personal contacts and to carry on effective administration. The two departmental