Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Court of Four Seasons Horticultural Building Court of Abundance Palace of Varied Industries Tower of Jewels I35 l

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THE STANFORD QU.-xn A Shimmering Pathway The Scintillating Fan From the East 34 -The Exposition Year By Orls lfl. CASTLE Nineteen-iifteen, the Ex- position Classf' Four years ago an epigramatie Sequoia contributor pinned this label to the entering class. Even before that touring San Franciscans were registering at hotels in New York and Nagasaki, Peoria and Petro- grad-to-be as John Smith and wife. 19155 and not a Jap or a Cossack but translated 19l5 into San Francisco and knew john Smith and wife for citizens of no mean city. Thus early did a great event throw its shadow be- foreg and for years Stanford has lived in this shadow. Now the Event has come, not, how- ever, in shadow, but in light: and every evening on the Farm we may go to our win- dows and see to the north- ward the light, an artificial aurora borealis, a permanent Midnight Sun. Actually and symbolically the essence of the Exposition is light. It is at once the Lamp of Learning and the Great White 'Wayg it is man with his dynamos shaming the moon and making for himself a place in the sun. The soft color scheme of Jules Guerin and the epoch mark- ing lighting effects are coni- plementary. The great bat- tery of searchlights and the 3,600,000,000 cancllepower scintillator now bathe the

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THE STANFORD QUAD Beachey's Last Flight At the Entrance XVhen the Gates Opened 361 buildings in quiet radiance and now tear off a fox-trot in the clouds. Gorgeously domi- nating the scene, the Tower of jewels is the focusing point of two hundred con- cealed searchlights. These lamps of Aladdin have made San Francisco nights Arabian. The pictures show especi- ally well one feature of the Exposition. This feature is the colonnade which forms part of the surroundings of the Palace of Fine Arts. This building and its approaches constitute an exceptionally effective harmonizing of na- tural features, flowers, trees and water, with architectural creations. The myrtles and roses which embower this colonnade and live again in the lagoon are banked against a vine none the less effective by reason of its formidable name of 111cscn1bryantlzc'n1um. In the Palace of Fine Arts is to be seen the contribution of the Stanford Art Club, and the work of H. V. Poor and other Stanford artists. Another building whose dome may be seen more than once in these illustrations is the Palace of Horticulture. This same dome is 186 feet in height and 152 feet in diameter. Architecturally the building is patterned after the Mosque of Ahmed I. in Constantinople. Horticultural Building is one of the first on the grounds to catch the eyeg