Denison University - Adytum Yearbook (Granville, OH)

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The Observatory distinguishes the College. A stranger entering the vil- lage before it was built and looking up at the hill might have wondered if it was an infirmary on a large scale or an institution for feeble minded. Noiv ivhoever sees the observatory dome in the group of buildings knows it is a col- lege. It is like Mr. Swasey ' s ivork, the best of its kind; not the largest, but finished. It is genuine in construction and fine in finish. When it ivas dedi- cated, a scientist who was present said to me, I have seen every observatory of importance on earth and there is nothing in the same class ivith this. — Dr. Emory W. Hunt 15

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What a rush of pleasant memories come crowding doion through the vista )f the years as I look upon its familiar outlines! Thirty years have passed since as a freshman I entered the building. How vividly I remember that first glance )f Doane Hall — the tables heaped high ivith books that needed to be arranged and placed on the shelves. Thirty years have ivrought great changes; the star of a greater Denison is just appearing on the horizon, larger and more brilliant than ojie even dared to dream of then. The old building has served its purpose nobly, but a neiv building is needed. Can not this be provided in some ivay; if possible, to the memory of that grand man, William Hoivard Doayie, the gen- erous donor of the old building? What greater monument to a noble man ' s memory What more pressing from a scholastic and university need! — Wallace H. Cathcart ' 90 14

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I 9 I -7 What do they suggest, those fall trees aci-oss the middle of the campus, to a student of the Eighties? Groivth, first of all. Their added height and dig- nity symbolize added buildings, added endowment, a larger faculty, student en- rollment and influence on the -world outside. And as icith Virgil ' s love-stricken shepherd, carving his words of love tipon the beech trees of old Italy ivith the thought that the love would grow along ivith the trees, so we who loved these trees of the Denison campus in the day ivhen they and Denison were relatively small have felt our affections grow along with the growth of the college itself. And then comes a vision of the old style football exercise beficeen the two Dorms, and of Akins, a noble and most faithful teacher, and — We ' ll finish this problem tomorroiv, boys; the bell ' s ringing. — W. H. Johnson ' 85 1