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...value is restrictive to a larger Harvard--whether it would not have greatly added to that smaller and more centralized institution whose era preceded it. At any rate it is impossible to conceive of Harvard without this most admirable aid to collegiate orientation. And now another link is added--McKinlock Hall, the formal dedication of which takes place today...
...memorial to their son, George Alexander McKinlock Jr., his parents could not have chosen a finer tribute than another Freshman Hall. It is at once a splendid commemoration to one who never lived beyond the years of youth himself and it is also a substantiation of a major note in the university's aims--that of making the first year as pleasant and as satisfactory as possible. McKinlock Hall joins the distinguished company of Smith, of Gore and of Standish and like them it stands as a vital and powerful influence on the men of Harvard...
...McKinlock Hall, the latest of the Freshman Halls to be erected along the Charles River, will be dedicated at 3 o'clock today. A program of exercises will be held in the McKinlock quadrangle at which the speakers will be President Lowell, Dean C. N. Greenough '98, General R. E. Summerall, the general of the division in which George Alexander McKinlock Jr. '16 served on the western front in the World War, and Dr. William Greenough Thayer, Headmaster of St. Mark's School, where McKinlock took his preparatory course for Harvard...
...George Alexander McKinlock of Chicago, who gave the dormitory to the University in memory of their son, will be present at the ceremony. George Alexander McKinlock Jr. '16 was killed in action in France on July...
Work was begun on the memorial dormitory on August 27, 1925. The class of 1930 is the first Freshman class to occupy the building, which accommodates 150 students. McKinlock Hall is the only one of the first-year dormitories that lacks a dining-hall, the space ordinarily occupied by the dining hall and common room being given up to two libraries, one of which contains most of the text books required for History 1, the introductory course in that department taken by most of the entering class each year. The other library, primarily designed as a reference for English...