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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE October 1913, he told the students assembled in chapel that, in addition to a science hall, there should be a machine shop, a new building for the preparatory department, a library building, a Y.M.C.A. building, a gymnasium, and an additional dormitory. In December 1913 the trustees authorized a campaign to raise $130,000 for a science hall, a preparatory department building, a machine shop, and an infirmary. At the same time, they established a standing building committee and instructed it to choose an architect, direct all constructions and alterations, and insure "that the style of architecture of Pennsylvania Hall be copied as far as is practicable in any new college buildings, all to form part of a harmonious and comprehensive plan for future expansion." The building committee chose as its architect George C. Baum (1872-1926), of the class of 1893. A resident of Philadelphia, Baum was the son of one long-time trustee and brother of another. Holder of a degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, he continued to serve the College until his unexpected death in 1926. President Granville used the columns of the Gettysburgian for May 6,1914 to announce that Baum had prepared preliminary plans for a science hall and a preparatory building, as well as "a comprehensive and harmonious scheme for utilizing all the land now owned by the College . . . for future building sites and campus purposes." The Baum plan called for the science hall to be constructed on the site of the existing chemistry laboratory and the preparatory building on the northeast corner of that department's campus. Dormitories, fraternity houses, and other buildings, all to be constructed of "red brick with white pillars, pilasters and trimming," were projected for the area north of Old Dorm. Since that building "faces the new campus as well as the present one," wrote Granville, "a portico fronting north similar to the one now facing south" will eventually be added. Old Dorm "will be the central feature of the completed plans," he told his readers, "a prominence which it richly deserves both because of its classic beauty and because of its historic importance."146 Unfortunately, since the campaign to raise $130,000 never came close to its goal, the trustees had to decide which, if any, of the four projected improvements could be completed. In June 1915 they instructed the building committee to erect a new hall for the use of the preparatory department. Ground was broken in the following fall and the structure was ready for use in September 1916. Called simply the Main Building, it contained facilities for all of the operations of the preparatory department, including a dining room. For the first time in more than forty years the College could now pro- 148Granville also discussed these plans in the Spectrum for 1915. 51