Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...library is a modernistic job in red and maple. The seminar room, featuring a large oval conference table, is well adapted to steering committee meetings. Upstairs on ground level is a smart-looking sloping auditorium that can hold 111 persons on wide theater seats...
...This auditorium is probably the most modernistic lecture hall in the University. Windows are all closed off, so a flick of a switch can darken the room for slides or movies. A tile floor, twenty fluorescent fixtures and a curved platform add to the modernistic atmosphere...
...While we regret the Committee's premise that sufficient funds cannot now be raised to build an entirely new Activities Center, we applaud their recognition of the vital role which an auditorium and extra-curriculum facilities can play in the life of the University. We join them in hoping that a truly significant memorial can be designed within the terms of reference which they have...
...three-fold plan, the combined Memorial Church tablet, Memorial Hall renovation with room for extra-curricular activities, and auditorium additions to Mem Hall certainly make a more functional and more appropriate memorial than the plaque-scholarship idea originally favored by the Committee. While many students will feel that a Student Activities Center in a building of its own would have been more effective than the diverse facts of the new plans, all will recognize the progress towards a useful and integrated memorial...
...recommendation for an "auditorium" to be added to Memorial Hall is perhaps the touches part of yesterday's announcement. The location is fine for a theater, and the proximity to Sanders may be valuable for rehearsal arrangements. The big question is whether an adequate new theater can be built, along with the other two parts of the plan, within the $750,000 limit fixed by the Committee. To skimp the theater would be inexcusable. It should be a theater, not an auditorium--a theater with at least 1500 seats, adequate dressing rooms, a modern stage, and a projection booth...