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Description and Rates

The Halls.—The most comfortable, best-equipped, and most modern
rooming accommodations in the University or in the city are to be found
in the new University dormitories, erected in 1929. This group of eight
buildings stands on the crest of the slope west of Monroe Hill, with an
outlook on the Ragged Mountains and the range of the Blue Ridge, and
is within less than three minutes walking distance from the gymnasium, the
academic, engineering and law class-rooms, and the University Commons.

These eight buildings are divided into twelve separate units, known
as Halls, each with its individual entrance, and each bearing the name of
some professor, distinguished in the history of the University. The buildings
are of three stories and of full fire-proof brick and cement construction
throughout. They provide one hundred and fifty-three two-room apartments,
of living-room and bedroom, each apartment intended to accommodate two
students. Of these one hundred and fifty-three apartments, eight are
provided for women faculty members, and four for men faculty members and
nine basement apartments for married couples without children. The remaining
one hundred thirty-two for women students in the Summer Quarter.

All of the rooms are approximately fifteen feet square. Each living-room
has an open fire-place and is furnished with a desk with drawers, a
table with drawer, a steel waste-basket, two rocking-chairs, two straight
chairs and floor-plugs for reading lamps. Each bedroom has two large builtin
clothes closets, and is furnished with two single steel beds, two chiffoniers,
and two straight chairs. All furniture is new, of excellent quality
and attractive design, the bed-springs and mattresses of especially high grade.

There is an average of one bathroom to every five students. The bathrooms,
each equipped with showers and an individual built-in steel locker
and a medicine chest with mirror for each student using it, are so placed
that every bed-room, with one sole exception, opens directly into a bath.

Telephone service is provided for incoming long-distance messages and
for all outgoing messages at regular pay-rates by a station in the Manager's
office in the basement of Venable Hall. Trunks and packing cases will not
be permitted in the apartments of The Halls dormitories. They must be
delivered to the trunk room in each Hall from which the student will remove

the contents to his room. Trunks and packing cases will be stored in dry
racks located in the basement. Each apartment will ordinarily be occupied
by two students. The rental for these apartments is $3.00 per week or $18.00
for the First Term and $15.00 for the Second Term for each person. The
rental for one occupant will be $36.00 for the First Term and $30.00 for the
Second Term. A deposit of $5.00 for each person is required in order to
reserve an apartment.

East Lawn and West Lawn are of one-story brick construction. They
contain thirty-eight rooms, each approximately twelve feet square, located
between the pavilions and opening into colonnades running the entire length
of "The Lawn." The rental is $15.00 a term of six weeks for a single room
and $10.00 each person for a double room per term.

East Range and West Range consist of forty-six one-story brick rooms,
approximately twelve feet square, built in sections running the entire length
of "The Ranges," and opening into arcades. In addition, there are two
two-story brick houses called the Old Gymnasium and the Club House, containing
fourteen rooms, approximately fifteen feet square. East Range will
be reserved for men students and West Range for women students. The
rental is $15.00 per term for a single room and $10.00 each person per term
for a double room.

Dawson's Row consists of a series of four eight-room, two-story brick
houses, and a six-room one-story brick house, located on the sonthwest side
of the grounds. The rooms are approximately fifteen feet square. Houses
A, B, and C are for men, F for married couples and G for families. The
rental is $15.00 per term of six weeks for a single room and $10.00 each person
for a double room.

All of the rooms on the Lawns and Ranges and in Dawson's Row are
provided with running cold water. For each of the Lawns and Ranges
one bath-house is provided.

Keys for each room, except those in The Halls, are furnished at the
Summer Quarter Office. Those for The Halls will be furnished by the
Manager at his office in the basement of Venable Hall on West Terrace. A
deposit of $1.00 is required for a key and is refunded when key is turned in.