University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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ed by students with sore thumbs and haggard faces? The first go to the Hygiene Clinic, the latter go on upstairs to the Psychology Depart- ment and Bureau of Personnel. It is Neville Hall, once a dormitory, now a body and brain hospital. Across the campus is another of the old dormitories and one of the original build- ings. White Hall, from which emerge shrewd business men. If we go back of the building we will find blossoming botanists slipping out that way to visit the botanical garden. Look- ing down upon the lower campus, we note the Memorial Stadium and in the place where the old campus lake once rippled we see the Men’s Gymnasium. Who are these aesthetic men we discern wandering among the athletes? Oh. they are future futuristic artists who have strayed from their Art Center, perhaps in search of the girls' dormitories which lie beside it. As an artist enters the art building we wonder if he could be an actor in the little theater. Re- crossing the campus, a grotesque figure catches our eye. It is the replica of an old iron monger’s sign in Assisi and is hung before the entrance to Wendt Forge Shop. Future engineers, but pres- ent dirty faced lads, run through its rooms and those of Mechanical Hall and other associated buildings. In the vicinity are shops which manufacture miners, physicists, civil engineers, chemists, mathematicians, journalists, and nov- elists. We pause for tea at Maxwell Place, the president’s residence, and then pass on to the home of blessed sleep, the men's dormitories. This spire rising before us is that of Memorial Hall, a tribute to those men who turned from intellectual training to answer the call of the NEW EDUCATION BUILDING WENDT HALL nation in the World War. Nearby is that part of the plant which turns out the sons of the soil which have made Kentucky so famous, the Agri- cultural building. As a by-product we have wives who can cook. Opposite the Administra- tion building is land that was once a work- house quarry, and in turn a dump, but has now evoluted far enough to turn out tillers of the fertile brain. Here stands the beautiful new Teachers’ Training building. Returning to the heart of the campus, we stop to look again at that little gem, the old library. Beyond it we see rising, immense, the new library, the latest triumph of President McVey. When this first half of the million-volume library is completed, the old building will be transformed into a museum, keeping alive by-gone days just as the campus will always treasure and keep alive by-gone memories. old library building [ Page 18

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which appeared on the crest of the hill which was once Maxwell’s Woods, to grow under the guiding hand of President James Kennedy Pat- terson. The college consisted of a main build- ing, now the Administration building; a dormi- tory. now White Hall; and the president’s home, now tenanted by Prof. Walter K. Patterson. With the addition of the College of Law the name was changed to State College of Kentucky in 1908; and. in 1918, with the appointment of Pres. Frank LeRond McVey, it was given the broader name. University of Kentucky. The present University, which is still growing rapidly under the watchful eye of President McVey, in- cludes the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Agriculture, the College of Engineer- ing, the College of Law. the College of Educa- tion. the College of Commerce, and the Grad- WHITE HALL women. Here are the halls where strings of raw material await their first contact with the factory in the form of the registrar's and busi- ness offices. Above, near the silent enclosure of the reading room, Teutonic tongues speak of beer and pretzels, and future politicians hov- er like swallows under the eaves of the great building. Continuing on our way. we note a knot of students arguing day in and day out— they are the lawyers and judges of tomorrow and this is the Law building, once used by the chemists, when that department was in embryo. All graduate roads lead to the Natural Science building with the Graduate School in its foun- dations, the first floor writhing with snakes, the next full of skeletons and rocks, and the next wild with waggling tongues—Romance tongues. What is this building which is enter- MEN’S GYMNASIUM BUILDING uate School. Let us stroll through the broad gate into our campus and note the various parts of this great factory called the University of Kentucky. Before us is the old Education building, now used in the production of his- torians, welfare workers, and philosophers, while located in its depths is the Extension De- partment, the binding post from which lines of contact run to all parts of the state. Con- tinuing up the drive, we mark the Armory and Alumni Hall whose products are soldiers by the squadful and healthy Christian young men and women, for these are the centers for the Mili- tary Department, the Department of Athletics for Women, the Y. W., and Y. M. C. A. The Administration building, now shorn of its cupola and covered with vines, is the engine giving forth all executive power. It contains the of- fices of the president and deans of men and NATURAL SCIENCE BUILDINO

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