Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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,zo , A IN? .a, T W: 1Q 7A3, : gaunt: NI t TIM; Under 3 I 1 1 V . 4; . the Wm Maw; $21923; Green Tlles ERHAPS the most distinctive feature of the permanent struc- jh tures on the Reed College Campus is their subtle impression of beauty. Designed as a modincation of the finest Collegiate- Gothic style, they are an embodiment of quiet dignity and strength, and although the wealth of detail is great, no single peculiarity arrests the eye. The aesthetic satisfaction experienced by the lover of good architecture When he surveys these buildings as a whole, can be fully realized only With closer acquaintanceship. Here are two masterpieces that repay a study of them with an ever-increasing sense of their loveliness. The fltness of every detail, and the fact that no peculiarity thrusts itselfupon the eye to break the general eHect, are the more remarkable in that the style is of composite origin. Though pre- dominately the modifled perpendicular style, characteristic of the active building period of the nfteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Tudor reign, it cannot be attributed to any one period. The plans include characteristics from the early Saxon period of the ninth and tenth centuries, on up through the various building ages to the modifications of strictly modern times. Few people would realize that in the Chapel, for example, much of the archi- tecture dates back to the tenth century, and earlier, if we are to include the apse at the west end, While the open timber Ceiling survives from the seventeenth century, and the stairway leading up from the south entrance is copied after the spiral stairs used prior to the Elizabethan Era. These early periods have been brought together and modihed to suit modern needs. Large windows, and the elaboration of detail of local interest on the buildings, however, the beaver, the seal, and certain grotesques Page Eleven