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WARD-BELMONT. NORTH FRONT OVERLOOKING THE CITY
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The Campus — Continued It is a still morning, the upper windows are open and you can hear typewriters click in a room on the third floor, and ambitious Expression students emitting rather weird sounds in the studio above. In the basement is the gymnasium and the inviting white tile swimming pool, truly a thing of beauty. But you have not yet seen all, for behind the Academic Building is the greenhouse, with its ferns and fountain and gold-fish. Surrounded by trees and shrubbery and attractive statues is the historic old Belmont Tower, which has proudly stood for unnumbered decades while countless romances have been woven about it. And hiding behind Pembroke (surely, unsuccessfully, for who could not find the tea-room?) is a quaint, little octagonal building, age old, the nature of whose usefulness years ago we all wonder about, but which at any rate now proves a God-send to throngs of hungry girls. Across the street are the tennis courts — but let us wander back to the campus. I do not wonder you want to linger here. It is lovely to look upon as it slopes gently from South Front down to the Academic Building. It was an artist ' s mind that planned it and placed its delightful summer houses, its fountains and stone figures, its walks and arbors, its urns and sun-dials, and the trees — magnolias, cedars. 1 can tell you why you love the trees so. They look as tho they had never been planted, but grew by God ' s own will. And because you know this was once a garden where Nmeteenth Century belles and beaux have walked, it is more fascinating still. I cannot say when 1 have loved it most. It is exquisite now with the soft airs of spring abroad. Thru the green grass a hundred hyacinths have sprung, and the rose bushes are covered with tiny, tender leaves. And a brilliant-hued cardinal calls up with his song an answering note in our own hearts. But picture the campus in January, when the master hand has touched it with another brush, transforming every statue, every shrub into pure and softened loveliness, and then has turned the sunlight full upon it that we might see its beauty glisten; or the campus in October, painted with the reds and golds of autumn; the campus at dusk when one star has peeped thru the blue, when the first shadows of night and the departing lights of day mingle lovingly to give the impressionistic indefiniteness of twilight. Picture it on an enchanting evening in middle May, when the moon has reached her perfection, and rides supreme in the heavens, bathing the whole world in mystic mists of moonlight. Now you have seen Ward-Belmont and you have been shown by one who loves every bit of her. You have seen the beauty of her buildings and grounds, and, with her dignifying memories of the past, her vitality of the present day, the great promise of her future, you are surely convinced that she must offer infinite inspiration to all who come under her influence. —E. B.
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