Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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. ' ■ -4 -.;»ri«- :m n I i •!»•••» jAiS l.it)cral rts The haunt of the patrons of the finer things o hfe, Asbury is set apart from the main quadrangh of East campus. Headquarters of the Aesthetics, Art, and Music Departments, this gracefu old building is a symbol of the fine arts. Two of the thousands of feet that daily cross th doorsill may be those of a future Picasso or of an aspiring young Toscanini. In the classroom: are piles of frayed scores and even more frayed instrument cases. Trills and arpeggios echo through the listening halls, in spite of the soundproof practia rooms in the basement. Enthralled students cluster around a phonograph, listening t( records from the extensive music library. Pictures are displayed on the walls. Here Duk( endeavors to train talent in the fine arts, and here it displays the fruits of its endeavors

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OF THEE WE SING Wonicin ' s Glee Club provides sinj ers for Chapel Choir If you pass East Duke on Tuesday evening, you will probably hear strains of music as a hundred talented young women raise their voices in harmony. They are glad to see the Men ' s Glee Club go on tour because then they can sing in the Sunday Chapel I service. They also form the Living Christmas Tree and a selected few join the men for the presentation of Handel ' s Messiah. MRS. J. FOSTER BARNES directs the Woman ' s Glee Club. Mrs. Barnes has led the Glee Club for twenty-seven years. She trains students for Chapel Choir and solo parts. The Glee Club is, in Mrs. Barnes ' words, a training ground. New members sing out with might and main, hoping they will be discovered and Mrs. Barnes will open wide the gates to the Choir, Hoof ' n ' Horn productions, or the Triple Trio. The girls in the club are usually there for the pure enjoyment of singing in a group, and if you ' re lucky enough to be in it, you will listen to the tweet of Mrs. Barnes ' familiar whistle, signaling the time to stop chattering and get down to business. DURING REHEARSAL IN EAST DUKE MUSIC ROOM, WOMAN ' S GLEE CLUB PRACTICES SUNDAY ' S HYMNS. 17

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They occupy t he working minutes of our lives at Duke. In their classrooms we learn the accumulated knowledge of the ages. West Duke, Carr, Social Science, Divinity, and Gray, are signposts along our road to wisdom. Across from its twin, West Duke in all its gray brick splendor guards the entrance to the Women ' s Campus. Carr bustles with activity when the bell rings between classes; its halls are polished by a multitude of feet every day. On West, next to the new, rapidly rising administration building is time honored Social Science, where classes are carried on in a battle with carpenters and bulldozers for su- premacy of the sound waves. Together, Divinity and Gray are on the right of the Chapel, sometimes resting beneath its shadow. These are Duke ' s centers of Liberal Arts, her strongholds of the humanities. WEST DUKE on East Campus contains classrooms, offices for English, philosophy, history, psychology departments. CARR BUILDING, East Campus, contains classrooms for SOCIAL SCIENCE, predecessor to new Physics Building, liberal arts courses, offices for language departments. holds economics and sociology departments, ROTC units. IN GRAY AND DIVINITY BUILDINGS ARE SCHOOL OF RELIGION OFFICES, CLASSROOMS, WDBS STUDIOS. mmkm m