San Jose State College - La Torre Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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L. Rirllry

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Lines to a Bug- Killed at La Honda VV Tonight I light the pine cone, little bug, And may its fragrance blossom like a prayer For your soul's peace. This morning, life was sweet For crawling, and the fresh, new, pungent air Was gay with pine scent. Then my frightened scream And maddened blow blotted out all the green Of your small life. One struggle-you were still, A little speck against the pine cone's brown. The breeze still sifted gently from the hillg The brook sang on. The sunlight drifted down. But you moved not. And then I seemed to see Your bug soul rise, bewildered and forlorn, And, facing purgatory, stare at me, Lonely for life, hungry to be reborn .... The pine cone burns. Small yellow flames aspire, l lean a little forward in my chair With moving life, regretful. May this fire Be both your funeral pyre and my prayer. -VIRGINIA SoIvIIzs SANIJIQRSON L30J

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HE rustic natural beauty of Washington Square with its towering elms, palms, and conifers vieing with La Torre itself in height, and legions of flowering plants, shrubs, and ferns combining with expansive green lawns to provide picturesque setting for this forest park within a city of 60,000 population--this alone would provide subject matter enough for a distinctive campus photographic view section. However, it is not solely in the natural beauty of the campus that San Jose State College prides itself, for in the architectural beauty of the col- lege proper there is a quality-perhaps unique- ness-which has caused nationally famed archi- tects to rank this college with the Carmelite Monastery at Santa Clara as outstanding ex- amples of architecture on the Pacific Coast. Editors of LA Tomuz, from year to year, thanks to structural expansion, are finding new scenes to incorporate in their respective view sections. Annuals of the preceding decade had no new Women's Gymnasium, no Home Making Build- ing with which to enhance their view sections. The editor of the LA TORRE of 1930 will have opportunity of adding to the photographic sub- ject matter a magnificent new men's gymnasium and a new education wing. As in the case of all progress, however, some sacrifice must be made and many of the venerated campus trees must fall toll to this expansion. Essentially, though, the natural splendor of the campus remains and will remain ineffaceable to those who have known and loved it. On the succeeding pages the artistic eye of Ted Ellsworth of San Francisco has caught with the camera eight representative campus scenes. These have been reproduced with a process gravure to more nearly approximate in beauty the originals. The scenes are, in sequence, the main entrance from the north: men's benches on front lawn, the west arch of the Kindergarten Primary Building: the left walk leading to the main entrance: the north front corridor, the Home Making Building from the south: La Torre from the south front lawn: and the Library wing from the northeast.