The chapter rolls, swollen with returning veterans and Cornell's burgeoning enrollment, have been stretching the capacity of the house to its limits. After two years of fundraising, construction begins on the first major expansion in four decades, adding a new dining room, fireproof stairwell, and new bathrooms. But most of the old house is retained, including the frontage and the first floor common areas— and the artist's conception shown in a 1953 Oracle is never executed.
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