Gettysburg College - Spectrum Yearbook (Gettysburg, PA)

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Brua Chapel was erected in 1888-1889, just after Glatfelter Hall was completed. This picture was made from the Glatfelter tower. After Christ Chapel was erected, the Woments League of Gettysburg College converted Brua Chapel into a fine arts building. and the Plank Gymnasium were erected and the post-World War II era which so far has resulted in Hanson and Stine Halls and Christ Chapelehave occurred when the nation experienced economic prosperity. Enrollment too has Huctuated in relation to prosperity and war. As the campus has expanded, buildings have come and gone. In addition to Lin- naean Hall, there was a chemistry lab, built in the 1870,s at the northeast corner of Old Dorm which also served a stint as a gymnasium; an observatory, which stood in the vicinity of Hanson Hall; and ttCottage Hall;9 a residence for professors, standing where the library is located. Miller Hall, the first fraternity house in Pennsylvania, was erected by Phi Kappa Psi, in 1882-4; it was joined a few years later by similar lodges of Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Delta Theta which together made up one of the flrst fraternity rOWS 0n the campus of an American college. What was once a field has been transformed into a shady lawn as the campus was created in its present appearance. Standing above the level of the campus. and brightly lit every night is the tower of Christ Chapel. It stands to unify the history of Gettysburg College: founded to pro- vide education in a Christian setting, the college has continued, through prosperity and adversity through the ups and downs of Changing academic procedures and atti- tudes, and through the remarkable growth of higher education, to offer America the finest of her intellectual tradition against a mosaic background of Christ befriending the student. 1The old photographs reproduced above and on the division pages of the 1957 SPECTRUM are owned by Gettysburg College9 the Alumni OHice, the Public Relations Office; the United States National Park Service; Mrs. Howard Sheffer; Pennsylvania Epsilon of Phi Kappa Psi; and Frederick S. WeiserJ Christ Chapel, dedicated in 1953, stands in the center of the campus, its steeple lit at night, attracting the eyes of travellers from miles away.

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DEDICATION THIS IS THE TEACHER . . . The U nderstanding M ind . . . which grasps the heritage of the past, distills it into the pulsating beat of the present and expands the meaning of what is now so that here is belief and pattern in the future. The Creative Mind . . . that touches chaos, then forms and gives order, burning with a mystic fire, bringing light and beauty, perceptive, discriminating and unfettered. The Understanding Heart . . . giving of itself and never losing its integrity, constant in its warmth and sympathy, always ready, strpng, trusting. T0 MRS. KATHERINE KRESSMAN TAYLOR . . . To All Teachers Is This Yearbook Dedicated . . . 1 , 11