Elmhurst College - Elms Yearbook (Elmhurst, IL)

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The Chapel, part of Irion Hall, is a jteacefiil and quiet sanctuary with colorful stained glass windows diffusing a solemn light on the maroon carpeted floor. In the forepart of Irion Hall stands the School of Music sending forth its harmonies and medlies of melodies. n the beautiful Chapel of Elmhurst College inspiration for Christian living is offered in the daily devotional services to all who attend. Students, professors, alumni, and ministers of every denomination lead the hearts in worship. The Chapel Choir, with well-blended and melod- ious voices does much to increase the beauty of a service and to still the hearts in reverent meditation. The lovely stained glass windows, organ strains, and solemn air combine to create a deep spirit of reverence that plays an important part in college life. The School of Music, in the front portion of Irion Hall, is a center for the musical culture of Elmhurst College. On a warm spring day the windows are flung wide, and out into the balmy air float a hundred sounds of melody. A deep bass voice booms out a hearty scale; a sweet soprano trills a high, clear note; somewhere in a practice room fingers ripple down a keyboard and feel new skill flow gently in; the sharp tone of a violin pierces the warm air and breaks out into a livelv folk dance tune. Each one follows the desires of his own heart and feels his life grow richer and fuller as he is guided by the beautv of music around him. 16

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Old Music Hall, the oldest building on the campus, still stands and serves among the stately elms. Here, in addition to classrooms, are the offices of the student publications, where ideas are born, copy is typed, and dead- lines are beaten. The Gymnasium, the newest addition to the college, stands at the far end of the campus- This domain of Pete and Teach , aside from being used for athletic purposes, may be transformed into anything from a circus big- top to Candyland for purely social pur- poses, and on opening nights becomes the campus theatre. Presenting quite a contrast to the Old Music Hall is the beautiful Georgian styled gym shying r: x ' ' T away to the northwest, a bit self-conscious of its youth, having been dedicated in 1928 iJc v- ' c t- i- X 15

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The campus in winter is transformed into a white wonderland of gUstening tree tops, bent with the weight of their lovely burden, tower- ing high above an earth of purest white. Life becomes an exciting ordeal of dodging fast- flying missiles of icy snow, strugghng to keep from falling on glassy ice while hurrying at the last minute across the campus to a class, and stumbling over rows of black boots in the hallways at Irion. It is a season of speculation as to whether or not the snow fence be needed, how deep the snow will really get, and how long the ice will hold. It is a time of endless fiery discussion about the real weather i n my home town. Elmhurst College is a lovely place to be in the springtime — but a bad place to study; for the seasonal disease snatches many a will- ing victim, who spends his leisure time, and then some, observing the green newness of the trees and inviting grass. Springtime on the campus is a trying period of great decision — whether to go to class and gaze longingly out from a luring open window, or to make the drastic step of taking a cut and openly en- joying the wonders of nature beneath a clear, blue sky. Spring turns the campus into a paradise of blossom- ing flowers and swaying trees, presenting an ideal setting for enraptured hearts. Winter blows its fury of snow and gale across the Campus and leaves for us an enchanted world of black and white.