Central Methodist University - Ragout Yearbook (Fayette, MO)

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Upp QS Gll Cupples Hall, generally called the library, contains approximately 54,000 volumes, plus numerous other publications and many unbound volumes. Aside from standard rooms lined with alphabetized shelves, the library has a brousing room on the first floor, a home-away from home for many students. Tables line the main room on the second floor and surround the checking-out desk where busy library assistants help bewildered students trace necessary volurnes. The third floor, which is the most secluded of the study facilities. is reserved for upperclassmen. The rules of the library were strange to the many freshmen slaving over term papers. Many such students spent long hours wandering through a maze of ceiling-high shelves called the stacks , searching frantically, not only for reference material, but also for an exit to the outside. Finally, a faithful library assistant would come, like a St. Bernard, and rescue the lost student. Through the years, term papers come and go, students search and lose their way, but thanks to the efficiency of the Central College library, they haven't lost a student yet.

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he onruison servalorq A part of Central College, yet not on the campus proper, is Morrison Observatory, a circular building surrounded by seven acres of land. This building is the home of a 12-inch equatorial telescope made under the expert direction of Oliver B. Clark, the foremost American lens grinder, who also made the lens for the 40-inch telescope at Yerkes Observatory in Chicago. The Observatory was erected in Glasgow in 1875 and became the property of Central College after the closing of Pritchett College in 1922. Since that time, the Observatory has given Central students opportunities for astronomi- cal observations and study that have greatly enriched the knowledge they get from the printed page. In addition to the large 12-inch telescope, -there are two smaller 4-inch eyes , and a variety of other instruments. Charts and numerous technical devices also explain celestial phenomenontto students and visitors.

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' with M The Conservatory, located approximately in the center of the campus, is the building which never seems to turn off its lights and go to sleep. Musical activities begin early in the morning, and even late at night, music streams across the dark campus from the open, lighted windows. The Con houses a strange type of student-the musician. This character complains throughout his four years of college about requirements he must meet and his lack of time for electives. He laments long practice hours, the time-consuming choir, band and orchestra, and the general hard lot that is his. But would he change places with any other student? Would he give up band or choir? He wou1dn't even consider it! A The Con boasts of a large recital hall, where musicians display their talents: many small practice rooms: several classrooms: the bandroom, home of Anderson's Army :i and Phi Beta's and Phi Mu's special rooms. Also, it has a set of the best tavailable phonograph records, the Carnegie College Music collection, for interested students to enjoy. In every room of the Con- servatory, a different person sings or plays a different tune. Some tunes are spirited, some are slow, some are light and gay. while others are sad. The happy confusion that comes to ears on the outside is the whole Conservatory speaking at once through its many mouths and fingers, telling of the different patterns which cross, but which meet at one common point--music. winneq onserbvalovg oi Nlusic