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Scales House
is one of the 10 houses of "the Quad" which form a semicircle and enclose a small courtyard. This area is also known as "diploma circle" where graduates receive their diploma during Commencement.
The
complex was built in stages starting in 1922, to alleviate a housing
shortage on campus. When
all the houses were completed in 1936, William Allen Neilson,
then president of Smith, pronounced it the "Great Quadrangle."
Scales and its sister house, King, were built in 1935 and 1936. Laura
Scales was named after Laura Woolsey Lord Scales of the
class of 1901. Scales was Smith's first dean of students,
a post which she held for 22 years.
 
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