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OLD QUEEN'S THE RUMBLINGS of impending war were distant but audible to the good citizens of New Brunswick in the year 1809. Yet to a group of earnest men they went unheard, for a matter of much more concern was the laying of the cornerstone of Old Queen's on june twenty-third. John McComb was the foremost architect of the time. He had built several churches in New York which are unexcelled even today. He designed New York's City Hall, with which Queen's has many features in common. Both are considered outstanding examples of Georgian-Colonial architecture. Upon acceptance of McComb's plan by the committee in 1809, work was begun on Queen's. Stone was chosen instead of brick for the sake of economy, and still the cost of construction exceeded expectations. The plans were twice altered to eliminate ornament and detail and to reduce the building to the plain, yet gracious, lines which every Rutgers man holds as a treasured memory. The building, completed, was destined to be the heart and symbol of a great college. The dignity of age-and the tradition that goes inseparably with it all-makes Old Queen's the symbol of Rutgers. The ancient stones of her hallowed walls have been witness 'to the history of just one hundred and thirty years. Incidents, such as the birth of a boy, Wil- liam Mabon, in 1822, within the walls from whose shelter he walked in 1840 as a graduate, the burial of a man in the well on Queen's campus, the stealthy purloining of the clappers of the bell of Queen's -which even now are the prized andirons of a fraternity house-all these cast a mantle of legend and semi-mystery over her. My heart clings closer than the ivy, ds life runs out its fleeting span To the stately, ancient 'walls Of her hallowed, classic halls . . . IO
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