University of Denver - Kynewisbok Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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teur Civic group stages a number of produc- tions during each academic year. A large mural, depicting a scene from a Greek theater and painted on the inside front Wall of the lower hall, is the object of no few caustic comments from critical students. lf that isn't a blotched piece of work, re- marked a Pi Phi as she stood glaring at the mural, I've never seen one. Oh, come on, said a sorority sister. lust because you've taken a few classes at Chap- pell you needn't waste a half hour on that pic- ture. Let's go over to Chapel. The Memorial Chapel, similar to a long block of wood with two slanting grooves on each side just above the center, running its length and with four girder-like and dome- capped towers anchoring its corners, stands approximately in the center of the campus. A stained glass window in the front wall diffuses the light into soft amber, which mists over the golden ,organ pipes pressed like two giant hands against the front wall. And against the back Wall, the smaller organ pipes are arranged similar to a slim hand pressed under- neath a second stained glass window. A series of benches like wooden furrows, DOMED TOWERS . . . will always mean Chapel. 0140 FUN HOUSE . . . a discarded library building . . . needed only a little student ingenuity to result in the creation of a long-desired Student Union Building. except where they are interrupted by three aisles, slope down to the platform. Graced with a curved olive branch, a small bronze plaque, hanging in the vestibule, bears the names of fifteen University students killed in action during the late war. Gaunt and severe and like the weather- beaten shell of righteousness that it is, the Chapel, with its meager furnishings, houses the most solemn and yet, paradoxically enough, the gayest of student activities. At the honor convocations, heavily robed figures march up and down the aisles as they seek new initiates for Omicron Delta Kappa and Kedros, senior men's and senior women's honorary societies. Insignia Day and Bacca- laureate exercises are held here: and, with these ceremonies, the Chapel assumes its great- est austerity. However, during the football season's pep rallies, the Chapel is charged with the vitality and the frothing spirit which goes hand in hand with pre-game expectancy. As the Friday Chapel closes, collegians stream from the three double doors to spread

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l ALMA MATER STATUE . . . adds a touch of symboli to Mayo Porch. can tell me why the Alma Mater statue has that green coloring? Sure, some vandals came down here and poured nitric acid on it a few years ago. I'rn satisfied. What do you say to going down to the psychology 'lab'? Located in the basement of Mayo Hall, the psychology laboratory and the Civic Theater storerooms are mad hives of activity. In the psychology laboratory, a jumbled collection ot various apparatus similar to the convolutions of the brain is strewn about the room. Some students are engaged in luring rats through intricate mazes, while others mould plaster of Paris facial masks on living models. Students in the Civic Theater storerooms may be seen shitting scenery or constructing new sets for coming productions. On the first floor and in a series of well- appointed offices, members of the psychologi- cal, English, speech, and language faculties hold conferences with students seeking aca- demic advice. The second story is given over to class- rooms brightly lighted by a series of casement windows and to the Civic Theater balcony. Passing through the halls ot this veritable Tower oi Babel, one hears French, Spanish, English, and German jargons. The Civic Theater is set against the back wall in the middle section of the building. Here student dramatists present plays and the ama- MAYO HALL FACES THE CENTER . . . of ex campus lawn blanketed by snow and dotted with leafless trees. 0130

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like a halfsopened fan over the campus. Some linger in small knots to talk, others hurry to their English, history, and language classes: While the chemists and the engineers stroll over to Science Hall. Science Hall, a large three-story cube which has been hollowed out to accommodate the SCIENCE HALL . . . a plain and unembellished struc- ture, viewed from Liberal Arts' campus. members of the scientific realm, forms the west- ern boundary of the University campus. Set apart from other buildings, Science Hall claims for itself a cool, precise, and mechanical attitude and a chemical gas aroma which is neither cool nor precise, although it is quite mechanical in its production. Mounted on the concrete floor in the left back corner of the building is a duo of master dynamos, When the switch is thrown, they turn over with a slow Whir, and then, as they speed up, the sound rises to a throbbing hum. Electrical engineers swarm over these electrical giants, inspecting the parts and studying the problems which have been presented to them by various professors. An observer stepping into the classrooms, which are equipped with staggered rows of chairs, will be bewildered by a maze of scien- tific symbols, unless his mind is capable of exhaustive mental gymnastics. On the second floor the chemistry labora- tories run the full length of the building. Here, students solve for unknowns and occasionally break test tubes and beakers in an effort to -...MLN UNDER THE ARCH OF SCIENCE . . . pass hundreds of chemical and electrical engineering students daily. e150