ding in front and a larger wing containing
laboratories, operating and class rooms at the rear. The building is 420
feet long and six stories high with provision for an additional three
stories at some future time. It is built of reinforced concrete upon
regularly spaced piers, and is similar in construction to the Natural
Science Building.

The work of the Homeopathic Department is centered in its fine Hospital
building with an adjacent Children's Ward and Nurses' Home just off the
northeast corner of the Campus. The Dental Building, erected in 1908, is
situated to the west, just across the street from the Gymnasium. It
contains many laboratories and lecture rooms, as well as an operating
room fitted with eighty dental chairs.

Of the other buildings off the Campus, the new Union, Hill Auditorium
and the three dormitories for women are the most conspicuous. The Union,
with its magnificent tower and imposing yet withal beautifully
proportioned masses, has been mentioned as the dominant architectural
feature of State Street. Hill Auditorium, which was made possible by a
bequest of $200,000 left by Regent Arthur Hill, '65_e_, of Saginaw upon
his death in 1909, forms one of the unique features of the University's
equipment. Despite its seating capacity, with the stage, of over 5,000,
it has almost perfect acoustic properties, so that a whisper from the
stage can be heard in any portion of this great hall. Its completion in
1913 enabled the University at last to bring the great part of the
students together under one roof upon such occasions as the annual
convocation, the official opening of the University in the fall. The
problem connected with the admission of relatives and friends of the
graduating classes to the Commencement exercises, which had proved
exceedingly troublesome for many years, was also at last ended; while
the musical interests of Ann Arbor, particularly the annual May
Festival, immediately found an opportunity for further expansion in this
hall, whose advantages as a concert hall were praised by every visiting
musician. The building, which is finished in tapestry brick and terra
cotta, stands opposite the Natural Science Building on North University
Avenue. In addition to the great auditorium, it contains offices and
class rooms, a dressing-room for choruses, and a great foyer across the
front of the second floor, where the Stearns collection of musical
instruments, one of the finest in America, is inst