al 1928 I worked in the library. At that time the library was located in Eliot Hall underneath the chapel, on the first floor at that end. It was just one room. There was one room there on first floor of Eliot where all of us day-dodgers had to put our coats and hats and lunches. I always took my lunch and I never entered the dining room all the time I lived off campus at home. I understood, although it never happened to me, I understood sometimes people lost lunches in that room, too. Somebody was too hungry, I guess. The big freshman classroom was at one end of the second floor opposite the Chapel. It held all the English and history classes and all the classes that all the freshmen had to go to. Any large class was always in that one room, because that was the only big room. The administration offices were up there as well. All the chemistry classes were up on the top floor in the attic as we called it. There was this small room at one end that was for the lectures. Biology was in the basement. All the classes and everything were down there, and we never had any real special equipment or anything like that. We had tables. The second year [was] when we had dissection. That was in one room. Then it had to all be cleaned up and put away. There were only four students in my class who graduated in biology. It was a small department. There was just one restroom in that building for all those kids. [Excerpted from Oral History Project interview, May 24, 2001.] 2009-09-24T21:52:26-07:00 reedstories@live.com false Vera eliot-hall-in-the-mid-1920s 11382 Smith Jackets pu 2009-09-25T18:28:03-07:00 1925