Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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TRADITION STARTED WITH BUILDINGS SUCH AS THE WATER TANK SHOWN HERE AS IT STOOD AS FAMILIAR A LANDMARK AS BRYAN HALL DOES FOR US TO- DAY. NICKNAMES SUCH AS AGONY HALL, FOR THE MUSIC BUILDING, AND THE CRIB FOR THE FIRST CLASSROOM BUILD- INGS ON CAMPUS, STUCK WITH THEM FROM FIRST TO THE LAST DAY OF USE. MAYBE THESE BUILDINGS WERE NEW AND STERILE TO THE STUDENTS OF YESTERDAY AS SOME OF OURS SEEM TO BE NOW. BUT FROM THE CLEAN WALLS THEY FASH- IONED THEIR MARKS OF TRADI- TION TO MAKE A FAMILIAR EN- VIRONMENT. MORE THAN THE PURE IDEA, THERE WERE CIG- ARETTE BURNS, TORTURE, AND INVOLVEMENTS CARVED ONTO -DUE TOPS, BANISTERS AND CORRIDOR WALLS.

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today we seek, as they did before, to conform the empty steel shell into a home for our form or inspiration instead of the idea into a building for the hour, we mark daylight hours to the clocks of Johnson tower, the bells of todd hall, and footsteps up the stairs of Cleveland, slowly we leave our own tradition etched in the form of a slow, smouldering contamination of the walls : - with an idea, an opinion or a question, when : the walls are fill ed, these buildings, too, will be traditions.