University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Students hold last minute conversation before entering Clnj p Mall for first hour class. Children of Pitt alumni, faculty, and administration had many afternoons of fun at the newly acquired Pitt swimming pool at Hubbard Reservation, now a part of the University Recreation Center. The Center is open to all Pitt students, alumni and faculty. The peace and quiet of Summer surround Hubbard Reservation. The Reservation building (altove) will be used as a country club when remodeling is done.

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performance worth) of a great university. Thus, a Gothic skyscraper -which was as revolutionary to architecture as to education was designed. The people and corpora-tions of this community donated over eight-million dollars much of n in the midst of this country’s severest depression to build the beautiful Cathedral of Learning. I his. the) thought, would satisfy the educational needs of the district for many future years. The Cathedral of Learning is not a revolution hut a conclusion,” stated the 1929 Owl. But it wasn t a conclusion. It was just another step, although a very large step, in the continuation of the era that had started 140 years before. In the past few years the need for physical expansion has again become evident. .New buildings, particularly to house students of the medical professions, have sprung up all over the Oakland campus. Just this year two new buildings—George Iiuhhard Clapp Hall and The School of Health Professions—have opened their doors to students for the first time and the Graduate School of Public Health is under construction. In conjunction with this constructional expansion the University has acquired other valuable property through purchases and gifts. Among the purchases are the luxurious Schenley Hotel and Apartments. 1 he hotel, serving {continued on page 11) Parking ban always been a campus problem. With the construction of multi-floor parking garages in the near future tbe problem will be solved. However, tbe situation was lessened this year with the opening of the new faculty parking lot (above). Pitt students in the new ScIukjI of the Health Professions didn’t have to worry about cutching an elevator; they used escalators. II

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The first room open to student use in the newly acquired Schenley Hotel was the Hunt Room. Here students gathered for small talk” and light snacks. With the opening of George Hubbard Clapp Hall—new home for the natural sciences—a new path, down Fifth Avenue walk, across the street, past Masonic Temple, to Clapp Hall, was tread by many students. Students of the natural sciences attended many lectures in Clapp Hall’s Spacious auditorium.