Agnes Scott College - Silhouette Yearbook (Decatur, GA)

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sii holjet t e: On the other side of the campus is Re- bekah ' s hated rival, Inman Hall. She is younger than Rebekah and very beautiful and much beloved. She has made a home for many celebrities in the past and still con- tinues to do so — wit- ness the illustrious Mary Cox. Far back of the other buildings, off to one side of the cam- pus, as if it were ashamed of all the trouble it has caused girlkind, the container of some of the worst torture chambers and the Tea Room, is a building known as Lowry Science Hall. Here in the interest of science have the noblest of our college women fought, bled — and died. There glowers in peace the horrible skeleton and far up on the roof, As- tronomy classes (in ages past) had a clear view of the starstud- ded sky. Far down be- low, under old pendu- lums and torsion ap- paratus is that haven of refuge from the wiles of Sir William and the Day Pupils ' one solid comfort —

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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE is beautifully situated on one side of the Georgia Railroad (see Genesis 1:25), whose trains have a remarkably regular schedule, never in all the glorious history of the institution having once failed to pass during prayers, chapel, or song recital. The campus is quite unique among campuses. It is adorned with green trees, grass which one must not tread upon in the spring and twelve imposing buildings. The first building to meet one ' s eye after one has J undergone the terrors of the underpass is a large structure made of red brick topped by the famous tower which one may not ascend in body, but which has nevertheless made many a Freshman ' s spirit soar into the realms of poetry. The effect of the whole is sufficiently impressive to render this building worthy to contain the powers that be, the telephone and several of the torture chambers. Above these, for two stories, people live and still higher up they sing and paint. When Miss Hopkins makes an announcement she calls the place Agnes Scott Hall, but we ourselves can never picture it by any other name than Main Building. Hung to one side of this construction by means of the far-famed colonnacie is that superficial adjunct of Higher Learning — a place to eat and sleep — Rebekah Scott Hall. It is piously constructed in the form of a cross, with dainty little Juliet balconies really meant to be fire-escapes, hung to the sides. On the ground floor is the great assembly hall of the multitude when they sing songs and pray prayers — the chapel. There are the Society halls, where you hav e to sing for twelve days in two weeks and then one night you listen to debates. J bi .,

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3IJUH o u e: T TT e: the Tea Room. Fannie and Alartha are the High Priests. Last and worst of all, the House of Hor- rors, the final fate of us all-, where the young grow ' old, and the old, grey-headed, the tor- ture chamber of Eng- lish XI and History I, and more just like them — the Last Ag- ony, being the Car- ,negie Library;theview from the windows of this structurebeingvery attractive to the unfor- tunate mortal who is three weeks behind on her History notes. And the campus — well, it ' s just some- thing to write poetry about, to stroll on and have plays on in the springtime and above everything else to love. And even if you do work us to death. Alma Mater lie love thy grand and stately ivalh, Thy campus green, and spacious halls. The voice of Southern hope still calls To Agnes Scott, my Agnes Scott. n