University of Virginia - Corks and Curls Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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i W -.,.,,-,,,'Lf CORKS AND CURLS VolXXVI 14 ' The Lawn with its sur- f roundings, however, is not the sole claim to a fine architecture. Each row of buildings called by metonymy a Hlawnn is separated by Italian gardens in the rear from a similar 'chain called a range, built upon the same cater- pillarplan and opening upon an arcade. At the southern end of West Range is the Commons, or mess hall, a building of plain and simple design and plainer and simpler fare.. Far-flung to the t THE LOWER RECTANGLE Hulsinger southwest, lies Dawson's Row, a string of dormitories in a sad state of repair only a few years ago, but now regenerated in ornature and plumbing and equipped with modern conveniences and cement walks con- necting it with the outside world. Westward lies cloistered Monroe l-lill, and the former home of the president who gives it his name. ln the rear the golf links span the distance to the Confederate Cemetery. Between Dawsonis Row and West Range, Minor l-lall, named after the late John B. Minor, the famous law teacher, rears its proud walls and columns. Its recent acquisition from the state legislature was the greatest legal battle ever won by the leader of the law faculty, and those who have heard the eminent dean lecture upon his killings in active practive will attest the intensity of the superlative. Leaving the mlqemplei' where is taught the law and the reason thereof, we start for the CornerH on some expensive pretext or other, cross the Lawn which was lately the subject of an effusion, hurry past the Randall Building, a crime itself and the scene of crimes, go down the vista of m1,.- .fhihf . . East Range, and draw up before the home of the medical depart- ment. The University l-lospital is an imposing building madexof a body and two wings. It is in the habit of acquiring a new wing with the facility that a crab grows a new lin, though not quite, for the state has to make -an approp- riation. It is the sanatorium for Piainer-andSimp1erFax-ef' students and all the people of the A A Building of Plain and Simple Design and A Holsinger I ,i -a---- ..., ,, .-, -,af ' . '. ' '- Y. .1 ' ' ' -, ..,, ........r...... ..s....,...,.4:sf.--,-af.--t--....--..... . , . . ,, X, ,, sa... ,A -

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1913, RKS AND CURLS Undoubtedly the esen tial lsarmony of the Uni 1 Arohnecture ac ademlc an H Topography V' age d e r 1 v e d from the contour of the grounds the symmetry and stateliness of the buildings and the offsetting beauty 01 nature unaororned The Ro tunda a modern Pantheon has been compared to a stone set like a gem among LAWN BY MOONUGHT the hills of the Blue Ridge It IS the central building and the most majestic in the entire scheme With its polished dome and base of grave c ntatlon it forms the northern end of the rectangular Lawn From either side raised and chanceled court forming the esplanades a line of pavilions broken by connectmg short rows of student rooms and fronted by a white pillared arcade makes a longitudinal side of the rectangle ID a southward course The Rouss Physical Laboratory on the east and the Mechanical Building cn the west prolong these sides to Cabell Hall the home of the academic de partment and the entrance to the large auditorium This arrangement of buildungs and cultivation of grounds IS the Unlversitys chief physical attraction The Lawn velvet gieensward in summer and a snow white close in winter Hanked by chiseled grandeur of classic facades and entablature may well be called a touch of nature beyond the reach of art The canopy of blue sky or star lit firmament is partially obscured by the luxurlant foliage of a double row of trees At night when shaded lights cast a faint glow with mellow tlnts there IS painted a pure pastel of a tone subdued and pleasurable as the halo of a garden on Olympus The Rotunda though the most majestic of the University buildings ylelds ln point of age to the only pavilion on the Lawn not oc upied as the home of a professor the Colonnade Club on the western side efferson Madison and Monroe were among the brilliant assemblage that attended the laymg of the cornerstone for this central structure in ISZ5 six years after the University was founded Nor has the Rotunda the cap stone of education in the state been lseld irviolate through the generations In 1895 it was wholly burned down 1n spite of the heroism of Hre fighters and in the present century a disgruntled Lb contractor who had not been paid by his prlnclp l tried to subject it to a mechanic s hen I-lere the sovereignty of the state prevented an act of lese majeste C O 13 , , S , rm 0 v e r s ' t y fs ' d . ,, . : - is . I 9 i I . . . I , 1 . ' f Q 1 l . . . . , . Y . , . as 97 - - V ' - . . X , A , . . . , . - , , I. nl - - . . . , . . . . 55 ,, . - . , a Q . F . . . , . , over delicately-limned columns and capitals, or the moon flushes a glimmering landscape I , , . . . . . . , . . . - - 'cc as ' .C ,-. - J 9 .U 9 ' , Q J - . . F , . V .A A T , I A S z 1 , . . . . d , . . . I . , . n ' Y A u

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1913 RKS AND CURLS Valley and the foothlll dxs trlct a model of 1ts klnd affording more than the nec essary amount of cl1n1cal work for senlor medlcos Wlth 1ts skllled physlclans ltS advantages have llsted the Unlverslty medlcal school 1n the front rank an honor shared south of Phlladelphla with ohns Hopkms and Tu lane alone And yet there has been talk by the Rich mond Times Dzspatch of the advlsablllty of comlng ln on a merger of medlcal schools ln RlChmOHdl The Temple Where is Taught the Law and the Reason Thereofn The hospltal lmmaculately Whlte IS not the forblddrng structure that lts hldden sorrow and slckness would lndlcate In the shade of the sloplng lawn ln front mlnlster mg Red Cross nurses s1t durlng thelr lelsure moments wlth needle work ln hand not lonely they for where IS the fourth year med slow to begulle the fleetrng moments ln suave and amlable conversat1on3 Wlthln those prophylactlc walls Dame I-Iurdley represses every dlsturblng element and learned doctors apply thelr physlc assuaglng pam or dlrectlng the Hashlng steel but outslde a pastoral of peace lulls 1nto forgetfulness the memory of severed members and the vermrform appendlx Hard by but separated by an expanse of lawn and dlvlded by the long walk to the varlous class rooms IS the Brooks Museum the only structure ln the related group that Jars the aesthetlc sense Its promlnent pos1t1on on the verge of the campus adds to the affront of 1tS exlstence and lt has ever stood the cynosure of scorn A frleze of paleollthxc monster heads glrds lts mlddle helght the symbol of an anachronlsm produclng a dlscord Perhaps the bulldmg expresses the cool dlsdaln of sclence for an otherwlse enveloplng art Certalnly It IS a false note ln a system that boasts the Dorlc of Albano and the Theater of Marcellus the lonlc of the Temple of Fortuna VlYlllS and the Corlnthlan of Palladlo and D1OClCtl3H s Baths Wlth the chapel a chaste example of the Gothlc style sltuated .egggings at the north western angle of the Unlverslty grounds one hemlsphere Constructlon of the college domain IS complete although laboratories llterary so clety halls and several resldences have been omltted Future 1m provements contemplate the erectlon of bulldmgs to make of West Range a quadrangle such as the lawn and the first wlll be the new educatlon bulldlng for whrch the Peabody . ... . 1 , . J , . E - - H ' Holsinger - . . . , , . . , , .. .1 , 5 ' . . , V , , . . - - cs as 3 - . . . - - ' 9 9 1 , Q ' 1 . . . . . . . . , , D , Q Y , 1 . . . . . , , . a a . . , ' Q ' 9 9 ' , i D I .. , . n E 1 - M ' -- --f W- --e--- A f' --- - - -...-. ,-L ,N g A .bu ,MAA-U-F,,, Mk., Vw--M-4 HM