Loras College - Purgold Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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T KEANE OAKS TIROUOH the hush ' d air the wliitening shower d(!scends, At first thin waverings; till at last the (lakes Fall broad, and wide, and fast, dimming the day With a continual flow. The cherished fields Put on their winter robe of purest white. ' Tis brig-htness all ; save where the hew snow melts Along the mazy cur¬ rent. — James ' I ' homson. Twelve

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LORAS HALL L OI AS MALL is ;i fittiiii ' memorial to the saintly Matthias Loras, first Bishop of Dulnuiue. It is a trim, modern, business-like edifice rearing itself majestically, conscious of its classic dignity, so it would seem, and looking out over the roofs of the city, and the Father of Waters, and the jagged fringes of Iowa, Illin¬ ois, and Wisconsin. Inside are long, stately corridors and clean airy classrooms. Here the science, the literature, and the art of the past become the ])ossession of the youth of to- dav, the man of to-morrow. Eleven

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SCIENCE HALL UCKKD up agninst the leafy flank of Keane Oaks, on Alta Vista Street, stands Science Hall. A long, narrow building of reddish brown brick, once the home of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, this is now the ' sanctum sanctorum ' ’ of science at Columbia. Here all the exuberant variety of chemical and physical nature is patiently investigated and stu¬ died. .And here, in line, upon the science of the past we hope to build the science of the future. Thirteen