Miami's philosophy department occupies the 2nd floor of the building, while the school's Performing Arts Series has office space in the main lobby.

In 1969, the planned razing did not occur, and the building was renamed Hall Auditorium in honor of Miami's fifth president, John W.

Contractors removed the south end in order to double the size of the stage to improve the acoustics and sight.

They decided to renovate because, according to Holly Wissing, Miami's spokesperson in 1993, the hall had become old and the acoustics needed to be improved.

[5] At Miami, Benton promoted the founding of the first sorority, Delta Zeta and created the idea of having a fraternity house row on High Street.

[6] After his presidency at Vermont, Benton went back to Europe with his family and became the head of war-time YMCA and was the educational director of the American Army Occupation.

[7] Dr. Alfred H. Upham wrote the following about Hall: "Doctor Hall, a fine Southern gentleman of the old school, who with rare tact and splendid self-control had directed the affairs of this patriotic northern college, found at last, when the struggle was over, that hostility had arisen and his usefulness was ended."

After his presidency at Miami, Hall went to Covington, Kentucky, where he served as Superintendent of Public schools from 1866 to 1876.

[8] Actors: Harry Connick Jr. (filming a scene for Little Man Tate), Richard Le Gallienne, George Clooney and Ryan Gosling Performers: John Philip Sousa's band, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, The Fisk Jubilee Singers, Fritz Kreisler, Andrés Segovia, Percy Grainger, Alexander Kipnis, the Don Coassack Chorus, Jesús María Sanromá, the London String Quartet, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Janos Starker, Robert Goldsand, Eleanor Steber, Lucille Browning, Blanche Thebom, the King's Singers, the Budapest String Quartet, Zino Franciscatti and Dizzy Gillespie.

Dancers: Martha Graham and Paul Draper Speakers: Robert Frost, Frank Lloyd Wright, P. J. O'Rourke, Norman Thomas, Basil Rathbone, Major Alexander De Severesky, Percy MacKaye, Adolphe Menjou, Ogden Nash, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Cornelia Otis Skinner, and Emlyn Williams.

Others: Sesquicentennial Symposium on the Arts in America brought Clifton Fadima, John Ciardi, Norris Houghton, Phillip R. Adams, Richard Neutra, Millard Sheets, and Halsey Stevens.