University of Denver - Kynewisbok Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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and Its People A study in architectural styles, the buildings of the campus reflect the judgment and whims of their builders and the necessities created by a rapid post-World Wal' expansion. From the sometimes-doubted stability of T-8 to the beau- tiful Mary Reed Library, the DU campus mir- rors the world its people inhabit. The entire atmosphere of the University is one of contrast and individuality. The people of this campus come from everywhere. They bring with them their individual likes and dislikes, backgrounds and customs, ways of thinking and not-thinking. Some of them give what they have and take what others have to give, some only give, others only take, a few simply come, and later, go. Some way all these things become a part of the University, changing it from day to day yet leaving it somehow the same. ' CARNEGIE HALL in Hi ii

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Story of a Campus This is a book about a University and its people. It is a sort of history of that University and those people of a single year. This is Denver, 1957. Ninety-three years ago a group of forward- looking men put a building on top of a hill sev- eral miles from most of Denver, Colorado fpop- ulation 3500j, and called it Colorado Sem- inary. It opened with 30 students and three faculty members. Today that building is the 'c0ld Main of the University Park Campus of the University of Denver. The campus covers a large palt of the original hill, is surrounded for several miles on all sides by the city of Denver and its suburbs fpopulation around 510,000j and has several extensions throughout the city. Vlfith a faculty of about 650, the Uni- versity enrolls a student body of five to six thousandl OLD MAIN an H?

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