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 - Class of 1977

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FEATURES EDITED BY JOHN DEPEW AND LIZ JACKSON

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Located in the center of the Building is the traditional by Liz Jackson The University Tower of the Main Building, rising 307 feet above Austin, stands as a symbol of identity and a timekeeper of tradition for The University of Texas at Austin. Built at a cost of $3 million in 1936, the 27-story Tower was designed in a modified Spanish Renaissance style by one of America ' s foremost architects, Paul P. Cret of Philadelphia. The Tower was one of over 30 buildings on campus designed after oil was discovered on University land in the early 1920s. The idea of a tower structure met with ambivalence from faculty and students. J. Frank Dobie suggested that the Tower be laid on its side for use as a classrooms building, arguing that the Univer- sity would never own enough books to fill the 27 floors of library stacks. But Dr. J. W. Battle, who had studied other college tow- ers, was Chairman of the Faculty Building Committee and the Tower ' s most prominent advocate. He reasoned that the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh ' s Tower had caused the community of Pittsburgh to physically as well as psychologically look up to the university. That same logic might benefit UT, he suggested. CLOCK AND CHIMES Dr. Battle was also instrumental in selecting the Grecian forum design as the structure to support the four faces of the Tower ' s clock. Each clock face is over 14 feet in diameter, and the minute hands are six feet long. The Tower clocK marks the quarter hour by four bell tones from the Westminster Chimes which bring to mind the prayer: Lord in this hour Be thou my guide For in thy power I do abide. Similar to the bells at Valley Forge, the set of 1 7 bells weigh 18 Traditions

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