University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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I . , ., , - 'Q' . .. .. ...... ..... .... .... .. .. ,. Q , 'E '- ' ' , .- . 0 'fl' 1' .. T .. .... ..' ,l' Q . ' - - - F7 K E QQ QQQMQM roi ,nn h v- J i-Qlw - I ' T .-gf P fff Old Main ,M 'Ci That old buildin' over thar beyond the Memorial 1' I Fountain? Why, ma'am, 1 ,.f- that buildin' hes the repu- i 4 tation 0' being the one real 'fb T historic spot on the campus. Q That's Old Main, the wit- .1 T ness of forty years o' -. -4-l growth and development o' Q1 ' Kill - Q . . Q 3' this-here University. I hear there's ben talk several times o' tearin' it down, and puttin' up a modern hc buildin' instead, but every- body, from perfessors to students, was up in arms against doin' away with somethin' that hes become a tradition like Old Main has. You notice how queer- like that-thar Main is built: like it was up on stilts, and sorta half underground? VVell, when the first Board o' Regents got the money ter build Main, back in 1885, they was two meni- bers disagreed on the style of the new buildin'. Dr. J. C. Handy, a strong- mindcd man, wanted a one-story buildin', because :ff Stanford had ben started bln with that idea. Mr. S. p Mansfield, also havin' a 91,1 mind 0' his own, wanted two stories, which was . ,. purty high fer Tucson. . -. Well, they split the diff'- ' rence, and made it a one- . f story basement buildin' ' a and thatls- hoiia..it's, stood ' ever since. They hev class rooms and offices there now, bosses o' the school in them days. They did f' and the book-store, but-Old Main hes ben fer purty much what they pleased durin' school f5QI2'? most everythin' and anythin' in its day. The and out of it. If they didn't want ter go 'ter boys who came to prep school, away back school, they jest turned the hose in Main bulld- Mtnzg, afore there was any dorms er livin' quarters in and filled 'er up to. two foot o' watergand fer out cgfcpwlpl students, used ter kind o tclanip tlgre was no classes till the floor was drained t - out in V' am, seeping on cots wit out o '. .vy Q: rt if Q: .5 .', sheets er pillow cases er none o' the luxuries o' civilizationg it was jest like livin' out on the range I reckon. Them young blades was the Old Main always 'pears to me like it could tell a whole lot 0' things if we could only un- derstand it. And I reckon it could all right. . 4 ,, , ,Page 10 V. Q5 Q Q ' Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q i . L Q . ll 1 l J l 'all a ll Q Q Q Q . Q Q Q Q 1 f 1 ,ll laratew m ll l

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411' 'lv' l l lil l ' ' Q e'N .i6s.fe s,e'xg ll l l l . .. J , 2 2 2 2 2 2 42 22 2 2 46 22 2 2 A lf: 2522? The Library What, you ain't back to the University fer ten year? VVell, you better let me he'p you 'round a bit -like as not you won't never recergnize this-here institution now. Arizona's timers what live aroun' here hev all we kin do to keep up with what's goin' o l l reckon these oc front gates was here when you was, but jest cast yer eyes over to the left now, where th' old athletic field use er be-There now- that's th' most handsome 'Qu 2 A3 ' 2 32 2 2 gg x 0 K 22 x 2 g i 455 . growin so.fast that we old ' 2 1 a 2 U Q n l l 2 1+- 2 525 t C buildin' on the campus, both inside and out, in my 'pinion--the new Library. They broke the ground fer it in january o' '34, and it's jest ben entirely finished this spring-the furnish- in's an' all. It's style o' lzuildin' hez some high soundin' name - Renais- sance. I b'lieve 'twas. Any- how, it's copied after them I-talian palaces. lt's three stories high, as you kin see. 'l'he Law Library an' Ref- erence rooms is on the ground lloor. 'l'here's a gran d marble hall and stairs, leadin' up to the - second story. Up there is the desk where you take out the books ter read, an' behind this is the stacks , as they call 'em, holdin' 'bout 68.000 bound vol umes. Miss Estelle Lut- rell. she's the head of it all, hez her office up thar, and ther's some class-rooms too. llut the most handsome room of all is the big Readin' ,. . --ww--- 2 xr LEM? 1-A a-nw,n1f-y..ALilgin- -'L '-W' B place fer work an' study, the buildin' is the headquarters fer them library dates the boys an' girls talk about. an l :iin't so sure thet RKJIQQ3 Room-up there where you see all them long some of 'em don't use it fer thet excloosive f,-Lnqgj windows, clear 'cross the front o' the Library. purpose! The Library is planned fer the fu- qftgg 'l'he Library is the result o' the combined ture an' no matter how much this--here lini- L Tl ideas. work, an' ilans o' the Librarian, Miss versit ffrows, it will always be a buildm' we y . .l I ' , I Y s v . I 31 l.utrell. Ex-President Marvin an the archi- km be proud of, an a landmark o beauty on 1 'i tects. Besides servin' its reg'lar purpose of a the campus. if U. Pdiig 9 .. . Y ' f m U ' U' - an ull: --I un- - -MJ A U I A in ' : TH, -' E. :L .L 4' -.. ' J - AL ,gg 1- .. ' : EO U 'W?'7 'i WP l Ill 1 A AlIli...L.-Ili-.ul-uhhh. , ' - V Y . .,,, . .. fp .Y v YY- .. - I Y - V mv . .. .......f. .....:.w1 ------ ' '

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V o 'u'n,i iiiisl o Vogt, V 4 ' Y . ,gi : f Agriculture Builchng . 'fAnd this is 'thx Aggie i I Buildinl, ma am.' lhe old- I l -x Q timer was showing people f 1 Q 'round the campus, and ' ' had stopped in front of the Q , big, red brick structure. lt's the head-quarters fer the College o' .-Xgriculture, ' an' temp'rary offices fer th ' .fXdministration, too. l re- '-, member the time they had ' , startin' the Aggie Colllige '-, 1' i' here. lt was when t ey L A was a-buildin' of Old 6 Main, that the llloard o' ' 'ff Regents found out that xx . the U. S. government made h . an animal appropriation of 1-,I Q' ?:l5,00Q to Agricultural 3. i fxpernnent stations, per- .-, .5 vidin' they was estahli?ed 9 1. under a state Aggie ol- ,i I. . lege. XVell, that money , 3. sure looked good to them, ,, J and an Experiment Station too, but they hed no idea o' how to get either one. ' To get the money we hed ' r to prove that we hed a ' State College .of .iXgricul- - ture at the University with i a perfessor at the head, 5 1 and in good runnin' order. . .-Xnd we didn't have nothin' Q like that at Arizona! But the Regents couldn't stand by an' miss a chance like Q V that one, so they up and finished ofic one room in , Old Main and put a desk I and chairs inlit, and put ' : Mr. Selim franklin, a 5' , E member of the Board of ' ' ' 5 .' Regents, in as Perfessor QQ, ' of Agriculture, and christened it the College of 'llhis was in l888 or thereabouts. By then the ' I Q- Aggriculturel Mr. Franklin told 'em privately State had give 'em some money too, and they f'F.i that he didn't know anythin' about agriculture: could hire two more perfessors- Dr. Forbes if-3553 he said th' only thing he could raise was a and Dr. Tounney for chemistry and botany, word that wasn't quite proper to say. But it who hev since both become famous men in Aff-5 don't do ter stand on ceremony in sech cases, their own line 0' work. iv- and we got the money. Till then they was no .f'Xnd now wc've got this Fine .Xgriculture QT organization at all, Init after they got some buildin' that was put up in 1917. lt's jest cash they could hire a real Aggie perfessor- about the middle o' things on the campus- fi 5? Mr. Gulley was his name if l recerllect right. most o' the business o' the school goes on here. 4 il? fp -il ' :i YA .ul lfauc 11 A xii C in gr wx. C -- O 'ii l'qil 3 ll' .. it ' Q? I E T, a ', H at :sz isr L- X 'r Ja s: :s W ' ' - ... A ..uIli..ii....i .... lh.. xqmi 'oj c . gg V: