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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE announced that the Endowment and Expansion Campaign had exceeded its goal of $1,000,000, giving reason for many to hope that when all of the pledges were paid there would be sizable amounts available for further construction. There was general agreement at the time, not only that the old chemistry laboratory was woefully inadequate, but also that the College badly needed a new and much larger gymnasium as well as a library building. The Gettysburgian for March 21, 1923 called the existing gymnasium a shame and claimed that it ranked "among the poorest in the country." Three months later the librarian told the board that "our Library rooms are altogether too small. We are indeed in urgent need of a library building." Urgent as all of them were for the welfare of the College, these three needs were not to be met immediately. The departure of President Granville early in 1923 suggested that planning for further building should be halted until his successor could be chosen and had gained some experience in his new office. The gradual realization that the Endowment and Expansion Campaign was going to yield much less than $1,000,000 prompted a search for new sources of money. In addition, it was soon evident, at least to some, that the College should entrust major decisions in designing a chemistry building to the successor of Professor Breidenbaugh, who was about to retire after a half century of service. Within a year after becoming president in the fall of 1923, Henry W.A. Hanson selected as the new head of the chemistry department John B. Zinn, a 1909 alumnus, a Johns Hopkins Ph.D., and a veteran of ten years of teaching at Amherst College and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. While recruiting Zinn, Hanson informed him that the next building on the campus would be a hall for two departments - chemistry and physics - rather than for one, and also that, if he returned to Gettysburg, he would have a free hand in designing its interior as an up-to-date facility.157 By June 1925 the trustees were ready to act. After the president reported the availability of $70,000 in cash and $80,000 in what he called gilt-edged pledges, they directed the building committee to secure plans for and proceed to erect a science hall and a "general assembly building which is also to serve as a Gymnasium." The committee approved the proposals which architect Baum submitted for two structures similar in exterior design to Huber and Weiden- 157Interview with John B. Zinn, July 1972, in GCA. Zinn had high praise for the assistance in designing the building given him by Horace S. Uhler, professor of physics in 1925-1926. At the same time, he was critical of the president for not having a professor of physical education available when the gymnasium was being planned and a trained librarian when the library was being designed. 51