Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Ill Toyoii hall 154 men are enjoying a dormitory zvhose beauty and convenience are not surpassed anywhere were erected at a cost of $450,000 each. This figure includes furnishings in either case. The Encina dining halls, with their high beamed ceilings, sturdy walls, and great windows, are among the most attractive spots on the campus. In this well designed building, two main dining rooms, in which freshmen are required to board for their first year, form the largest single unit of the new boarding system; six smaller dining rooms are occupied by eating clubs and transient boarders. All of these rooms are furnished with tables and chairs of special Spanish design. The new Encina kitchen is in many ways the finest on the coast. It has a staff of twenty- one professionals, and although less than a year old, already feeds 580 persons three times a day. The object of the new boarding system is to make each unit as homelike as possible. A student board of governors, meeting with Comptroller A. E. Roth and Miss Etta H. Handy, director of dining halls, not only decides the general scheme of operation, but actually determines the menus, rules and regulations, and various other details. An addition to the Stanford convalescent home, built by Mrs. Henry Crocker in mem- ory of Mrs. Kate D. Mc- Laughlin, was completed during the year. This beautiful addition, which accommodates twenty children in addition to the sixteen already pro- vided for by the home, cost, with equipment, nearly $50,000. Serra house, a beau- tiful home in Spanish architecture, built by the university last fall, was Strength and simplicity of style V;jti ;, «( ■ to the nevj Toyon ballroom 31

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for student feeding and opportunity for every student to take part in some kind of athletic exercise. In Toyon hall 154 men are enjoy- i n g a dormitory whose beauty and convenience are not surpassed any- where. In plan Toy- on is built to house four groups of about thirty men each. This year it housed members of Tlic iirii ' Eiicina kitchen is in many u ' ays the finest on the coast SCVeU Catmg ClUDS as well as a few men who are not affiiliated with any small group. The present idea is that succeed- ing dormitories will follow the same general architectural scheme. At the ends of the four wings are group sitting rooms, each with its fireplace and many windows. The high ceilinged, finely proportioned ballroom is the most beautiful and impres- sive room on the campus, excepting, perhaps, only the IJranner dining hall, not yet quite completed. Branner hall, named after the late John Casper Branner, the university ' s sec- ond president, is a contribution of athletics to the university. When the old dor- mitories had become so crowded that a large proportion of men in the university were uncomfortably housed, the Board of Athletic Control conceived the idea of relieving the situation by vising a part of the stadium earnings. This appropria- tion for Branner hall is one of the first cases, if not the only one, on record in which college athletics have given support to a university building plan anywhere. Unlike Toyon, Branner hall is built for men who prefer to live without any affiliation except that provided by a large group organization. Its rooms are arranged like those of Toyon: for the most part in suites of sleeping porch, dressing room, and study, or of bedroom and study, ac- commodating two men each. But it has not the group sitting rooms. As has been indicated, it has a remarkably beautiful and imposing dining hall. The two halls, con- structed of reinforced concrete designed for earthquake resistance, 30 Colonnades connect the neiu Encina dining rooms with each other and with Encina hall ■ i

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occupied by David ■ Stan- Jordan in December. It lies a few rods south of Xazniin house, for many years the residence of Dr. Jordan. The latter, now Manzanita House, has been made a dormitory for graduate women. In the front of the old Union building a store with a small soda foun- tain in connection has been completed. In the basement of the old Union, w ' here a cafeteria was operated last year, a Branner hall as seen from the roof of Toyon. This ' iew bidicajes clearly complete and Up-tO-datC the quadrangular plan on zvhich the dormitories are to be built, . ' i i Toyan and Branner halls forming two sides of the first ICC Cream parlor and SOQa quadrangle. Connected withBranner hall is a spacious fountain have been in- dininq room, shown in the center. 11 i a i i- -ij: ■ ' Stalled. Addmg an ettec- tive finishing touch to the beauty of the Union courtyard, a fountain recently has been constructed. Stanford ' s plan of athletic expansion will eventually give her a most complete equipment for the physical development of every student. It will be twenty years or more before this program is completely carried out, but in the past year several new athletic fields have been completed. The seating capacity of the Basketball pavilion was enlarged by the installation of i)ermanent bleachers. The program of athletic expansion is discussed in more detail in another section of this volume of the Quad. Administrative and Ciniuicu LAR Chances Administrative and curricular changes are not so readily observed by the casual onlooker as are changes in the physical plant, but they are of an even greater sig- nificance to those who are a part of the university, and who have its welfare most at heart. During the year the Board of Trustees created a new body, known as the Stanford National Board, to assist in planning the future development of the uni- versity. It is made up of thirty members appointed by the ISoard of Trustees, and representative of all parts of the country, and its object is to bring directly to the aid of Stan- ford the information and ideas of men of experience and wis- dom from all ])arts of the nation. Its membership includes both alumni and friends of the uni- versity. Having as its object the pro- viding of a general course of study in .social .science and pviblic affairs, and following out a ])lan inaugurated last year, a school of social sciences was this year or- 32 Serra house is the new home of Stanford ' s first president, David Starr Jordan