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University Hall was more than dining-room and undergraduate rioting headquarters. It also contained the President's office, the chapel, and a number of class rooms. Classes in those days were called recitations and the building was full of small, intimate courses featuring professorial commands such as "Smith, won't you be so good as to read that passage." Despite the great opportunity for close contact between faculty and students afforded by these small groups, all efforts to that end failed...
...received socially as students by professors as professors is inconsistent embarrassing, and compromises the independence of both partie." After one season, the "socials" were discontinued, and faculty and students confined themselves to their respective parts of the building, except for the daily mass gathering in the chapel...
Located in the middle part of the building and occupying the space of both second and third floors, the chapel was the most famous part of University Hall. The whole building was designed by Charles Bulfinch, class of 1781 and the greatest American architect of the times, but utility and the budget limited him through most of the job. In the chapel he had a free hand and the result was one of his finest creations, according to the word of contemporary experts...
...rate, it was the chief meeting place of the College, and always much in use during big celebrations such as Class Day and Exhibition Day. Dignitaries from the outside world, including La Fayette, James Monroe, and Andrew Jackson, frequently were received in the chapel. When Jackson came, there was much pomp and celebration, probably more to the pleasure of the students than of the President, for "an oration in Latin" by an undergraduate was followed immediately by an address in Latin by President Kirkland, and Andrew must have had a time of it following the gist of things...
...with the construction of the old Appleton Chapel, the chapel in University Hall was started on a series of transformations which ended in 1896 with the formation of the current Faculty Room and the final elimination of undergraduates from all but occasional and official visits to University Hall. Exactly the same size as the original chapel, this room is where the monthly meetings of the faculty take place...