Allegheny College - Kaldron Yearbook (Meadville, PA)

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0 BENTLEY IN THE WOODS o Nature in harmonious concert with the art of man 3 chaste, classic Bentley and a summer sky, cloud- banked, framed alike in thick greenery. In the Ravine, the luxur of rhododendrons on a background of soft, rolling lawn. Under the spell of such bright tranquillty one 'Knows only superlatives. Merely unc of the five loveliest of the American campif' do you say? How admit even possibility of rivals? To sons and daughters of Alleghe- earth has not anything to show more fair- 080

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an xixi' o ACROSS THE RAVINE TO BENTLEY o A priceless Colonial gem in the natural setting which has displayed it exquisitely for over one hundred years. As an example of the early American architectural style, Bentley ranks second in Pennsylvania only to Philadelphia's Independence Hall. Of the administration building, Allegheny's historian, E. A. Smith, observes: In the subtle s mmetry of perfect art, in the pleasant harmony of ornament and line, one would travel far to End its equaiz' The camera's faithful eye has recorded here another sort of achievement, toog did you ever wonder why that little tree in the right foreground was growing out of the bank .rideway.r7 illlfi Q e V 7 -'Y a a W ' 070

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Q rf ' if of pa Iqo ' , . ' 0--up an ' In 5 e x ' r 'P ' - 'l F.-1 .' K Q v X l 9 haf X 1 x 0 ARTER HALL 0 The baby of the campus four years old now IS the busiest ofyoungsters Built as a catch all for an over flow of courses that had flooded rickety Ruter and drlven Lang classes to Wilcox attic this trim little bullcl mg now houses the department of history philosophy modern language and literature and speech In the biasemlsntdxs the Playshop complete with pocket size stage auditorium and workshops for apprentice s age an s 090 ff r 'Q 4 Modeled in architecture after the stateliness of Bentley, Arter Hall, too, embodies the Colonial spirit.