Virginia Polytechnic Institute - Bugle Yearbook (Blacksburg, VA)

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A Y' W ' N 1--l v NUMBER ONE BARRACKS-DRILL FIELD AND PATTON HALL HE parr of cannon whrch grrrnly protects the quadrangle was purchased rn 1893 wrth pr1ze money won by the Corps rn a competxtrve dr1ll rn Norfolk just behmd the cannon IS Number One Barracks the focus of hfe on the quad rangle Under the flag are the guard room marl room and bookstore Lazy and amrable are the bull sessrons Wh1C11 take place on the stoop of Number One partrcularly durmg the sprmg quarter here too good natured jests Hy thrck as pals gather to watch guard mount rn mrd after noon The wrde expanse that 15 the drrll and recreatronal field over Whrch the regrment sloshes or struts accordrng to the weather occupres the center of the oval around Whrch the mstrtutron IS bu1ld1ng up Patton Engrneermg Hall contarnmg srx engrneermg departments the office of the dean of engrneerrng and the engrneerrng lrbrary Was named for the dlstmgurshed educator and pracucal engmeer who served Vrrgmra Tech untxl hrs death as the first Dean of Engrneerrng

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'A' t 'Ir if -k wk 'li' ml' if 1 ' y Y.M.C.A.-DAVIDSON HALL I I HE burldrng of the Young Men s Chrlstxan Assocratron socral and tecreatronal center just off the quadrangle IS the most frrendly campus refuge from the bustle of student lrfe Here members of the lower classes especrally re tue for rest and msprratron The Y was bu1lt Wrth mo'1ey rarsed almost entnely by a smgle cadet It was the second student Y M C A burldrng 111 the South and the laymg of the corner stone rn 1899 attracted a large attendance rncludmg Vllglnla s Governor Tyler Smce rt rs pr1mar1ly a stronghold of chemrstry fumes and odors from thousands of experr ments form the sharpest rmpressron and the chref memory of Davxdson Hall ultrmately to be the home of the chemrstry department alone but now temporarlly holdmg the geologxsts physrcxsts and metallurgrsts as well Innumerable skylrghted laboratorres of all srzes occupy the low rear portron of the hall the massrve front: contarns most of the ofhces and classrooms T XXX l , f. e q y i at at n so o , , 1