Brigham Young University - Banyan Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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ALTHOUGH hoary with win- ters, Education Building is never asleep and never weary. She has seen more university life than any other building on the campus, and hers is the dignity of ivy and the softening beauty of snow. She has a quality of age that is all her own, a quality that twilight and cool whiteness transform to beauty almost breathless. Long golden autumn afternoons and soft spring evenings find the fountains before the Education Building visited by gay groups of students. Winter finds it thralled and silent, but still incredibly lovely. ■I

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COLLEGE BUILDING is not- able for its si mplicity and practicality. It was made for serv- ice, and accomplishes its purpose, housing College Hall, the school of music, Little Theater, the book- store, and the publications offices. The whole of Lower Campus is a garden of trees, a shading park at day and a mystic grove at night. It is a laboratory for nature classes, besides, because the plan- ters chose to create a campus full of types and specimens, and few of the trees bear the same names.

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HIGH on the hill, overlooking the entire campus, stands the home of the President. The house, beautifully constructed and sur- rounded, borrows the dignity and prestige of the man under its roof, and has caught the same guiet air of watchfulness over the universi- Varied and interesting bits of architecture crowd the campus, among them the little-used but lovely old President ' s Entrance to Education Building. How it came to be more for decorative purposes than for utility would make a story perhaps, if it could be traced and told. Probably many distinguished guests have walked the stones where vines clamber now, and where birds build nests, undisturbed.