Bryn Mawr College - Bryn Mawr Yearbook (Bryn Mawr, PA)

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hours perfecting each detail. The Remington Rand strike delayed the delivery of the files; one of their workers was the only casualty. He cut his head open on a shelf in Mrs. Landes ' office. The clock in the lecture room underwent a similar misadventure. Its wires run down the wall and under the floor to the opposite side of the room, and in bolting down the 68 chairs one of the workmen cut the connection. This left the engi- neer with the problem of deciding which of the eight bolts belonging to each chair was responsible. Fortunately the incision was detected under the second chair unscrewed. Mr. Soper suffered a truly major calamity when the shelves in his office gave way and several hundred slides crashed to the floor. The shelves have since been fastened more securely. Among the blessings of the department are a dark room equipped with a special camera to make new slides, and an electric press for dry- mounting pictures and thus insuring them from curling in the future. More important, the big lecture room was designed by Mr. Sloane and Mr. Carpenter. As each part flows structurally in to another, the room as a whole is a fine example of practical and aesthetic unity. All in all, the new wing might be considered an art major ' s dream. One, however, expressed herself thus: I ' m not sure I ' m not more impressed by it than able to work in it. The colors in the Quita Woodward room are borrowed from the memorial portrait by Violet Oakley of Quita as she appeared in Big May Day. In spite of the fact that the room is so lovely undergraduates have not misused it by studying there. So far the only abuse, Miss Terrien con- fides, is that the students will put their feet on the nice light furniture. 19

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L I B R ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS 21