Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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HI REED COLLEGE ABHWJAL K as. am v-n d raaz- DH 1; n g: z: I a yiimagffiftfgfrfjj r- unrv 5r:5;:3'9':':35'3?9?;!;:T: 1'1 A is a reminder of gild halls in Yorkshire. The design of the chapel itself, especially the paneld walls and the hevy-beamd ceiling, is taken from the Great Hall of Hampden Court Place near Lon- don, which was bilt in 1536. The whole effect of this blending of secular and sacred architecture is 3 Chapel which is neither incongruus with academic tradition nor out of keeping with the sober uses to which the room is occasionally put. The future development of the campus with the growth of the college largely depends, of course, upon the liberality of those men of means who at interested in what the college is doing. That whatever additions may he made to the present equipment either for academic or residential use wil not be out of place in a unified scheme of architectural grouping, a plan for the development of the entire campus has been prepared. The principle of the scheme is a quadrangular grouping of bilda ings around larger and smaller Open spaces. The principal quadrangles in this plan at the group of bildings for instruc- tional purposes on the east end of the south half of the campus, and the group of residential structures directly west which ine cludes a site for a college union after the English university pattern. The ground north of the ravine, now unimproved, is reservd for coordinate scientific and professional scools and the College for Women. A consistent plan of this kind, even tho sketchy, insures freedom from the perpetuation of mis- placements in college architecture which frequently caracterize the campuses of American colleges. 1915 . k w .Wv LOER CHAPEL HALLTVAY l :hpgr-gent-t-E-ui - .Tu-gi t.-.-.-. :5..'a-n.;u 3;;-;.;.;'..h.

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JLLEGE t'u .x NREED COLLEGE ANNUAL -:- 1915 I31 ' REED COLLEGE: GROUNDS amf BUILDINGS HE material surroundings of students at Reed ar I conduciv t0 helth, happiness and the enjoyment of labor. The campus is a sightly, wel-draind tract of 9 medo and woodland with plenty of room for ath- letic fields, tennis courts, parks and Hower gardens. The bildings and equipment, tho necessarily inade- quate in some cases to meet the demands which a more extensiv college plant would 131, 3r modern and hrst-clas in every respect. The whole plan of grounds and bildings for the Reed College of the future. with the advantage of location and the sanity with which the first steps wer pland for foundations, presents un- equald Opportunities for artists and filanthropists. The recreational delights of the campus ar not overlookt by its inhabitants. Crystal Springs Lake, tho just outside the limits of the college property, is available for safe canoeing since the removal or liiarking'of dangerus snags in the shallo parts. The recently improved swimming-pool in the ravine which divides the campus promises enthusiastic indulgence in another aquatic exercise. The strip of woods along the ravine offers attractions for strollers. Numerus birds, several varie- ties of wild Howers, mossy logs, and the song of the brook ar appeals to the minds of the esthete and the hart of the nature- lover. On warm spring days the several acres of lawn around the bildings and along the driveway ar dotted with groups of collegians, reading, conversing or resting. Architecturally the college bildings leave little to be de- sired. The architects, Messrs. Doyle, Patterson and Beach, combined in the two permanent bildings alredy erected, the Arts Bilding and the dormitory, a high degree of usefulness and a clever individuality of design. Comprehensiv study of the best practises in American scoolebilding construction has insured efficient lighting, ventilation and sanitation. A sympathetic treatment of the best models of the Gothic architecture of Eng- lish universities, churches and private houses, has given the bildings a good deal of the atmosfere 0f sixteenth century OX- ford without any sacrihce of individuality in design. The Chapel, which occupies the west end of the third and fourth floors of the Arts Bilding, and the chapel entrance and stairway in the west wing of the bilding, ar, as a unit, per- haps the best example of the architects' work with English models. The chapel entrance to the bilding is after the doorway of the Pilgrim's In, the only part intact at the ruins of Gaston- hury Abby, near London. The loer hallway, with the library door, the stuccoed walls, and archt alcoves, is designd on the lines of the inner entrance to the Cloisters 0f the Westminster Abby Church. The upper hall with the high beamd wood ceiling

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Cg. - ,u- - '.h NBEED COLLEGE ANNUAL .;. 1915 I51 REED COLLEGE CHAPEL INTERIOR