Macalester College - Quid Nunc Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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LIBRARY S FAR back as 1910 the MAC had declared that l'Macalester's greatest need at the present time is a gymnasium, for the two small gyms were poorly equipped, had no place for spectators, and were not suitable for intercollegiate events. Then in 1927, along with a president's home, the gym was com- pleted, and the yearbook boasted, The gym's the thing! It stands there, the need of years realized, the biggest and best equipped gym in the state. For almost fifty years Macalester men had continued to live in the East Wing or in one of the co-operative boarding houses, such as Edwards Hall located at the south end of Shaw Field, and just recently torn down. Then in 1927 the dormitory was moved from the oldest building to the newest, Kirk Hall, starting a new chapter in student life that promised to become as rich in tradition as the one in the East Wing had been. This year it is the privilege of the 1942 MAC to first record the completion of the new library building. Designed in Gregorian colonial style after the Gymnasium and Kirk 1-Iall it includes two main reading rooms, conference and seminar rooms, a visual and oral aid room, five floors of stacks with over fifty individual study carrels, and a special room for the library of Dr. Edward Neill, the man who first strove to secure for 'Macalester a first class reference library. After being housed in the East Wing, in the Morguef' in Old Main in the northwest corner of first floor, on third Hoor west of the studio, and in recent years in the basement, the library has at last reached an adequate and permanent location. In concluding this introduction to our illustrated course, it should be recorded that Macalester students are already looking toward the day when the quadrangle will be completed by a structure on the eastern edge of the front campus--probably an auditorium with space for the music, speech, radio, and art departments. But until that day, here is where our record must begin. Page Fourteen

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HE MUSIC depart- ment was next to find new quarters. Founded by Harry Phillips in Room 103, it moved into Room 104 when Old Main was completed, and in 1915 the Wallace Hall dining room served as the recital hall with teaching studios in the small dining rooms. Ar that time Rice Hall was described as a commo- dious building given over to piano practicef, Ten years later the department moved into its present building, the old Macales- ter church. PRESlDENT'S HOME CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC HE NEW Macalester Presbyterian church building on Lincoln and Macalester was finished in 1924 and it was decided by the trustees of the church that the college should have use of the sanctuary for chapel services. Originally held in Room 104, chapel moved to the studio in 1895, at which time the faculty sat in imposing array on the platform facing the student body throughout every service. Page Thirte

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N REALITY no eulogies are needed, for the record of Grace Bee Whitridge's of- fices is imprinted in the fiber of the college she so long served. It is in remembering the woman who taught home planning when the present gymnasium was a plot of wild grass, the woman who terrifi- ed and enchanted each succes- sive year of freshmen, the woman in the gray smock who M155 GRACE 3, WHITRIDGE lashed flats together in the drafty studio, that these words are written. It is in the rememberance of integrity, of a militant courage, and a gentlewoman's devotion to Nlacalester College that the 1942 Biennial is dedi- cated to Grace Bee Whitridge. T menace! fion -if Page Fifi