Brigham Young University - Banyan Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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WHAT is the strange learned quality that hovers over a House of Books? The Library seems, somehow, soberly inviting and peculiarly wise. Perhaps it is proud of those thousands of vol- umes arranged in orderly rows in the stacks; perhaps it is conscious of that long reading room with tal windows and book-lined walls; per- haps it is careful to preserve its own dignity and position, there on the height of Maesar Hill. And perhaps it has caught the spirit of quiet study from the hundreds who move through the doors, day after day.

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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.

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p 1. 1 n»z ' u FT i i THE low white Mechanic Arts Building is not an obvious campus asset, but a very real one, nevertheless. The newest building plans center about this building, which will probably take the form of additions to this well-equipped school of practical and structural arts. Maesar Memorial is the only campus building to possess that in- tangible significance belonging to tall columns and immobile white- ness. It is easily the most beautiful among Brigham Young University homes of study, and although shar- ing the summit of the hill with the Library Building, it manages to be the hill ' s true crown.