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Cfte (0xforb of America THE ■preceding pages of this volume have shown to you something of the architectural and panoramic beauties of our Alma Mater. Let them imprint themselves on your mind as they have fixed themselves indelibly on the souls of all those who have lived and wish to live again ' mid the scenic splendor that is Boston College. You, who must be content ivith but an image graven on paper, can never fully realize the sublimity of that image as we have seen it — real, present, tangible. We ivho have lived and studied here, surrounded by those silent yet living piles of stone, will ever recall with a thrill of justifiable pride the magnificence of our Heights. The Heights! How apt the term! How intimate! Apt in its connotation of the glorious heights which American architects can achieve; intimate in its symbolism of the height and depth of a lasting spirit of fellowship eng endered beneath the austere majesty of those towering piles. Basically founded here on the native rock that lay through the ages awaiting the master touch of the architects, the O.vford of America slowly takes shape. First arose our stately Adminis- tration Building with its massive Gothic tower and its pealing carillon, calling all to the intellec- tual and spiritual perfection of a higher education. Enclosed here by its strong walls is found beauty sufficient to delight the aesthetic .senses of a Pugin and a Raphael. The magnificent and lofty rotunda, its walls embellished with graceful arches and heroic murals, below which one finds the finest marble e.tamples of the .sculptor ' s art, is the center of a plethora of beautiful cham- bers, formal halls and somber .study rooms. Here surrounded by all that is suggestive of the fine arts, the men of Boston College are tutored in the Humanities and Philosophy of the ages. Next among our buildings is Saint Mary ' s Hall. Standing like a .sentinel at the entrance to the spacious grounds, it serves as a friendly harbor for those men of the cloth who have dedicated their lives to the education of youth. Within this structure can be found the acme of ecclesiastical Gothic design, from the beautiful Saint Ignatius Chapel to the cloistered gardens. Truly a place of repose for these men of God! Steadily the renown of their pedagogy spread and the field of science was opened to the young men of New England who, enticed by the wisdom of the Jesuits, crowded the vastness of the neio building called Science. There, in the modern laboratories and spacious lecture hills, the my.steri.es of the ages are expounded and clarified to those who will some day lead the field in medicine, biology, chemistry and physics. Least ornate of all the group, Science, in its Gothic simplicity, is the symbol of the unified truth taught behind its solid ma.sonry. The culmination of this humble appreciation must be necessarily a word-picture of perhaps one of the finest examples of Gothic architecture in America. Our Library! A .strong edifice, solid and massive, but the rugged lines of which are softened by a series of graceful, arching windows, beautiful in coloring and design, each making to live again the literary tales of the masters. Within this building a sweeping expanse of .stairumj leads to the main hall, the reading-room with its massive, carved, oaken beams and its stately chandeliers, wherein the very air .seems to impart the spirit of deep, quiet .study. The antechambers of this magnificent pile are filled with rare old first editions, priceless relics of antiquity and the works of the masters in painting. Such, in brief, is the mere language-depiction of an architectural work that really beggars description. Here is but an humble attempt to put in words the feeling of deep love and reverence for Boston College engendered in the hearts of her men by the beauty of their Alma Mater. C. E. L., ' S4-
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