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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE Weidensall Hall Completed in 1922. Until about 1960 better known as the Y.M.C.A. and then the S. C.A. building. This picture shows the building as originally constructed. ceremony and the following November, during their annual convention, they laid the cornerstone for the new building. They could not proceed beyond this point, however, since the trustees had not yet authorized actual construction. As late as June 1920, citing continued inflation and shortages of materials, the board urged further delay. Finally, in December of that year, after the necessary details had been completed, the trustees at last approved construction. Work began in the early spring of 1921, with students helping to dig the foundations.,5:i Even then, there were delays in securing some materials and it took a year to finish the outside work. The building was dedicated on June 13, 1922, with Edgar Fahs Smith, of the class of 1874, retired provost of the University of Pennsylvania, as the main speaker. Five years earlier, in June 1917, the trustees had decided that the name of the building when completed should be the ,63"At last the new Y.M.C.A. building is to be erected," declared the Gettysburgian for March 16, 1921. "Of course, many will say that they are tired of hearing the same old story of the fact that the building is to be erected." 51