Skip to content

Remodeled version, interior: Examination Room

Remodeled version, interior: Examination Room

Other license.

Source: Unknown

Dickinson was three stories tall. The first two stories were given over to classrooms, and the entire top floor formed a large examination hall. Lined by busts of great thinkers -- Homer, Virgil, Aristophanes -- "Room 21" was known as the "Hall of Horrors" by undergraduates, as it served as the primary location for midterm and final exams. The interior, one student recalled, was "a maze of corridors and staircases, with a thoroughly unfathomable numbering system."