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Rearview Mirror: Book Learning

As you probably realize by now, many of your favorite (or least favorite) buildings on campus are named after old fellows who used to be really important, hence the honor of having a dorm named after them, or what have you. It makes the legacy of Dr. Kenneth Matheson all the more ironic and intriguing to walk down Techwood Drive and see his most apparent lasting legacy on the grounds of the Georgia Institute of Technology is a modernist freshman dorm, though it is fittingly joined that of his fellow English professor, William Perry.

Captain Lyman Hall died very young, at the age of 45, and very suddenly, a death that went down in Tech lore as one from overwork and pure exhaustion.