University of Denver - Kynewisbok Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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they were put in to hold the walls together, after'the Miners set off cr charge of dynamite near here the night before a football game. The line creeps between the dun-colored walls and over the oiled floors. Coeds and men shuffle along or lean against the railing of the staircases spiralling to the third floor. I'm tired of waiting, declares a coed to her friend. Let's go to the Women's Club room. The lounge off left center of the first floor is tastefully furnished with slip-covered chairs and couches. Softly tinged with gray, the drapes complete the light, sunny color scheme of the room. Students studying mathematics, astronomy, zoology, and biology, wind up the two creaking and foot-shallowed staircases to their class- rooms. I feel like Frank Buck, remarks a coed, when I go into the zoology 'lab' with all those stuffed birds and reptiles sitting around. Have you bought the new biology text? asks a sister collegian. Let's go clown to the bookstore after class. ln the basement of University Hall, the book- store and the Y. W. C. A. are tucked into the two opposite and back corners of the building. THE LADDER OF SUCCESS . . . finds exempliiication in the marble stairwuys of Reed Library. THE RENAISSANCE HALL . . . from third floor. 0110

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BEAUTY IN ANGLES . . . is the Mary Reed Library Tower as it catches the rays of the noonday sun. and registrar's offices forced the recitation rooms to the third floor. During registration, a queue of students coils through the main hall and down the left to the buildings entrance. ' lust like going to a bank, offers a fresh- man. l Wish those student officers would hurry up. Who do they think they are, just because they're behind barredlWindoWs? Quit your shoving, frosh, commands a 0100 senior. Then at random, This place is too small to handle a crowd. Why don't they adopt another system? Wonder who that 'cop' thinks he is, shov- ing us around into line? 'queries a sophomore. Say, points out an underclassman, have you noticed those steel bars running through the walls? Yes, replies an upperclassman. 'Prof' Hecht told our astronomy class last year that

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THE HISTORIC ARCI-IES OF OLD MAIN . . . are etched into the hearts of every graduate. Give me Wood's 'College Handbook of Writing,' demands an agitated freshman. Step on it, l've got a class in Mayo. t A compact, fortress-like structure of wire-cut brick, Mayo Hall, styled after collegiate gothic architecture, rests on a small plateau between the Gym and the Chapel. During chapel period, students cluster on the veranda, which fronts the building, to dis- cuss social affairs. Occasional iests are cast concerning the two stone tablets which are mortised in the building's face and which are engraved with the Words, Iustice and Charity. Charity, scoffs a learned sendr from the Kappa Sigma house. What do they mean charity at seventy-five dollars per quarter? Well, observes an independent student, we may not have charity, and then again maybe you're not on the inside. But We cer- tainly get a square deal from the 'profs' around here. And since you're so wise, maybe you l PAGE WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST! CREAKING STAIRS . . . WOODEN BANISTERS . . . MASSIVE BEAMS . . . create the distinctive interior of U. Hall. 0120