Masters School - Masterpieces Yearbook (Dobbs Ferry, NY)

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The last of these rooms, the Llbrary, has the most evasive and subtle atmosphere The particular lndlvlduallty of the Engllsh Study and the History of Art Room strikes one immediately, but the lndwldualxty of the library must be learned gradually But when a person has come to know this room, she finds that its atmosphere can be brokcn up into three parts The first constituent is its perfectxon of form Oak book shelves lme the walls and Jut out from the sides of the room to make the alcox es 1'wo plam, massne tables are in the middle of the room, and there are short tables m the alcoves surrounded by stralfrht hacked boldly carven chairs Even the plaster CClllI10' would have the same St6rnnCSS were lt not softened by the tulips, poppies, acorns, and daisies on It At one SRS ACCEN5 I I I i I I Ni' end is a space of bare, smooth oak above a foggy etchmg of the Thames At the other end IS the most effective expression of all this slmpllcmty, the fireplace It IS made of large blocks of smooth stone wlth the Dobbs shield LVCERH 5 ei-35 carved over lt In the oak panel above 19 written ln the Library It 19 The second constituent of the Library atmosphere windows IS mysterx The many llttle cupboards at the alcoxe ends lead into none knows what mysterlous excltements The Gretk mscrlptlon is also a mystery to most of us The shadowy alcoves are part of it too, espe cially the long, rounded and unexpected one at the end of the room But VURGUL ll xii' use iid . . - KKQDWE, One of the lnsrgnra the Lxbrary windows the most mysterious things of all are the printers swns on the leaded panes of the casement windows Who were the men to whom these signs belonged? Were they printers of Blbles, of the forbldden books of the Prench philosophers, or of nursery rhymes? Here is a seven branched candlestlck with Lucernxs Accents Fldelrter Mmxstro wrltten around it There is another, a king SIIIITIQ calmly in a precarious ship rowed by one man No one who hadn t been told could possibly imagine what these signs meant, or to whom they belonged in added spice of speculation IS possxble because of them The last thmg th tt makes the uniqueness of the library IS less tan glble than the others I thunk tt IS something left there by people who have studled here, by the people whose ideas he captured on the shelves by the people whose vlsxon built the room Here one can feel the tmpress of many minds Because of these xarrous dlfferences from other places, the Library has m thc most perfect balance, the qualities of remoteness and mspmra txon And therefore xt is here that studying becomes most fully a Joy 20 ,. . . Q a A . ' 0 4 A A o ' . '-1 A ' - .. - '-3 'W ' fv . . A jx, ' l I 3 Q . ' . U gr . l lb G1 ' W U F I l ' A I ' . 1 - 7 , .' f . ' g, if ' y 55 . - . A ' . J? , ro I 4 -A g , -.55 O hm . A . ' 3 ' - . ' an f K , t -1. I : , D A . ' ' . . . ' t 1 P, ' l . A f - . ,J - 4 V fb n ' 4 ' . ' A. ' 7-9 ' ' . . - ' fm . ' v Y V4 --7 a ,, . . ' En' . , I Q as v 4 A n A E , . . ' - 3 ' ' o . ' A . ' , -1 - . . - ' yr . . . O , ' ' ' . ' 2 ' . . . :f ' ' ' . - . f 5 ' A R Eh ' , 4 ' f ' . . Q . - , . 2 L ', . . ' O Q n as . ' , , l ' 2 . 2 D fb ,FA 'I' . Q - - u . t Q.. as -- - , ' ' ' 3, - h v- -I . . . ' - 0 Kyla: frlfcc-e -I - - ' . . - . ' 'g ' we----uf . . 1 0' ' E. fl Y CWX .V . I , ' , cn N., 4 ,, . - - 5 S- q . ' i ' ' I ' l Y. 5' - Ouxsuuuu u1.Ll-:gala '

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