Loras College - Purgold Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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A new chapter in the history of Columbia was begun with the opening of the new gymnasium. One of the best in the middle west, it will give birth to new ideals, hopes, and inspirations. Under its shadows Columbia athletes will struggle on the gridiron and baseball diamond. On its floors Purple and Gold teams will bid for future victories. There will be shown that indomitable Colum¬ bia spirit which makes men marvel. Through it Columbia will attain still greater preeminence in athletic endeavors. Our Alma Mater believes in “sana mens in sano corpore,” and has always aimed to develop her students into models of moral, mental, and physical perfection.

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V ' IV T UCKED up against the leafy Hank of Keane Oaks stands Science Hall; — a long narrow building with a tall chimney running up the wall, and a row of little evergreens radiating from either side of the entrance. Within the walls of reddish-brown brick are the chemistry and physics laboratories — veritable “sancti sanctorum” of learning; the habitation of rows and tiles of tall, soldierly looking bottltes, with glass stoppers; and of scores of queer-looking machines that are wont to splutter and fume with angry showers of blue sparks, to the discomfiture of meddling Freshmen. It is here that busy young chemists peer into retorts and test tubes, and heat murky liquids in crucibles. It is here that youthful bacteriologists and bio¬ logists prepare to safeguard the world ' s health and happiness. And from these classrooms come the chemists, physicians, and electricians who, upon the foundation of the Science of the Past, will build the Science of the Future.

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“At his table lie liked friend or neighbor lo convert tion to what was good, just to have verse with. Hid DlMid.nt s often as he could some sensible • ' this means In turned our atten- S ITUATED on the plateau northeast or the chapel, where the cam¬ pus of St. Joseph Hall joins that of Loras Hall, a long, low, solid building with a French roof and a row of little dormer windows fringing the cornice,-that is St. Francis Hall. Not as spacious as St. Joseph Hall, and lacking the imposing splendor of Loras Hall, yet the building is alive with pleasant associations in the mind of every Coumbian. Thanksgiving dinner, the Christmas banquet, retreat, Easter,— all call hack lo mind the picture of the long dining rooms at meal-time, and the steady buzz of conversation as events of campus and classroom are discussed around the tables. Indeed, at Columbia it is very true that all roads lead lo St. Francis Ilall,