Rollins College - Tomokan Yearbook (Winter Park, FL)

Page 8 text:

PREXY HOLT Knowles Hall, one of three buildings representing Rollins College in the nineties, was lost by fire. Present Knowles, science laboratory, was built in 1911, second floor used as an assembly hall at that time. SPEAKING OF PICTURES... If the philosophy of Peter Standish in Berkley Square could be applied and one could watch the map of time from a different plane, seeing Rollins, past, pres- ent, and future at will, it could be no more interest- ing than the plans Dr. Holt has made on a basis of past and present. At first there was the Rollins of religious ilk. This was the Rollins of 1900, with stark mossy trees, and as far as shrubbery was concerned, it was no-dog ' s land. There were wire fences, plaid bicycling bloomers, derbies, bull-dog shoes, mountain-haired co-eds, and young Rex Beach. There were quiet Sun- days, baroque wooden buildings, shingled turrets, erratic windows, Pinehurst and Cloverleaf. The years rolled out new plans, brought the build- ing of Knowles Hall, complet e with organ, choir and high collared boys. Bit by bit, new buildings came, and after Dr. Holt ' s arrival, the architecture flour- ished. The idea of the chapel was born, and raised. Then came the Annie Russell theater, and finally the new dorms with their peppermint ice cream colors, wide arches and patios. Even now the construction of new conference bungalows, whose house-plans and decorations include an intimate air, are going on. New plans, new designs are never stagnant in Dr. Holt ' s office. Already, he has a complete plan of the Rollins of tomorrow which will no doubt include those prehistoric traditions, Pinehurst and Cloverleaf. But after all, it is the old buildings alongside the new that somehow epitomizes Rollins ' educational plan — something old, something very, very new. Dedication exercises of Knowles Hall, March 9, 1911. Aerial view of new girls ' dormitories and sororities show new Strong Hall, left. Fox Hall, bottom, and Lucy Cross, top.