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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE removal was waged in the columns of the Gettysburgian, the trustees in June 1942 directed the administration to tear down the building. The second oldest College structure, built with much student labor, Linnaean Hall disappeared from the campus during the summer of 1942. In December 1938 President Hanson told the trustees that the College "has now reached the point where, I think we are ready for a forward step." It was, in his opinion, "decidedly important to the College constituency to inaugurate a project, big enough and sufficiently worthwhile, to challenge the united support of our entire student body" and of the Woman's League. The forward step he had in mind was the construction of "an adequate and attractive" chapel to replace Brua, which admittedly had long "served the College and served it well." He proposed that the new building be designed as "the most attractive structure on the entire campus" and be placed across Washington street from Weidensall, where it would be "in the center of our campus activities" and would "afford a splendid perspective to passers-by." In response to this appeal, the board approved a financial campaign for the new chapel and called for the support of all friends of the College. Although more than $100,000 in cash was soon received for this project and although fond hopes were expressed that construction would begin as early as the spring of 1940, wartime and postwartime conditions delayed its completion until the early 1950s. To recapitulate, between 1904 and 1945 there were many improvements and additions to the College's physical plant. From 1914 on there was a comprehensive campus plan which the trustees had approved, but they were of course always free to determine the extent to which they wished to use it at any particular time. Seven of the seventeen major buildings of 1904 had disappeared by 1945: the observatory (1925), chemistry laboratory (1927), janitor's house (1928), Cottage Hall (1928), Linnaean Hall (1942), and two fraternity houses.167 One 1904 building, the dwelling house at the southwestern corner of Washington street and Lincoln avenue, had been moved into the 200-block of West Lincoln and was still being used as the College infirmary. Nine of the seventeen buildings of 1904 were still in use forty-one years later. Between 1916 and 1939 ten new buildings were constructed on the campus: Huber Hall (1916); the Stahley Home (1916); Weidensall Hall (1922); Plank Gymnasium (1927); Breidenbaugh Hall (1927); a 167The observatory was removed during the summer of 1925 after some years of neglect and brief use as an infirmary. The old janitor's house was the one located north of Old Dorm. In 1943 the College tore down the dwelling house at the corner of Washington street and Constitution avenue which it had purchased in 1911. 52