New Building Dedicated In Simple Rites

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New Building Dedicated In Simple Rites

Colorful Procession, Short Talks Highlight Angell Hall Ceremony

A colorful academic procession and talks by state and University officials marked the dedication of the $4,784,403 addition to Angell Hall on the University campus yesterday afternoon.

Mason Hall, Haven Hall and Angell Hall Auditoriums were officially presented by state officials and accepted by Regent J. Joseph Herbert in the hour-long ceremony in front of the General Library.

Highlight of the program was the first public address by new Literary College Dean Charles E. Odegaard, who assumed his duties Sept. 1.

Ruote Of Procession

Led by Prof. Warner G. Rice, the procession wound its way from the front of the Administration Building, through the new Literary College buildings to the steps of the library.

In the corridor connection the Angell Hall Auditoriums, the procession paused while President Harlan H. Hatcher and Literary College Senior Class President Roger Wilkiens unveiled a plaque of former University President James B. Angell.

A crowd of about 200 persons watched the procession settle in chairs in front of the Library while Rep. Joseph E. Warner of Ypsilanti, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, actually presented the buildings to the University.

In accepting the additional facilities, Regent Herbert called for a re-dedication of the buildings on "academically hallowed ground.”

Odegaard Speaks

Describing the role of the Literary College in relation to the other colleges and schools in the University, Dean Odegaard called for an educational system that would emphasize the "totality of human experience.”

"It is the purpose of this college to enable students to understand man in relations to his natural environment, other men in his community and his own inner aspirations,” he said.

“The general wisdom which the Literary College seeks to develop is a needed complement, one might almost say prayerfully, an antidote, to the intensive specialization of much of the training of our generation.”

"There is a danger that the full range of human intellectual experience may be limited by narrowed avenues of study,” he said.

As New Building Was Dedicated

This was the scene on the General Library steps yesterday as the new Angell Hall was formally turned  over to the University by the Michigan Legislature. A colorful academic procession preceded the dedication ceremonies.