Washington and Lee University - Calyx Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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TUCKER HALL— NEW LAW BUILDING TO BE COMPLETED DURING 1935-1936 SESSION I. The 1)L rxixg of Tucker Hall While the town of Lexington «as already excited over a devastating fire in a large lumber yard during the early morning hour of December i6, the residents on the Washington and Lee campus were startled by students rushing across the lawn, shouting, The college is on fire. Early arrivals who saw the flames darting from Tucker Hall, the law building, both in the front and the rear, realized that the building was certainly doomed. So general were the flames that there was no opportunity to rescue the books from the librarv, or the valuable portraits of John Marshall and the bust of John Randolph Tucker. The three fire companies of Lexington, Buena Vista and Staunton working together rescued the college from a danger that threatened its entire plant. Those first en the ground are convinced that the fire was the work of an incendiary, though no possible motive can he assigned for such an act, and no clue has been discovered as to the perpetrator. The insurance on Tucker Hall itself was $20,000 and on the library, $10,000. II. Temporar - Plan ' s for Ixstructiox As soon as the tension of fear for the other buildings was relieved, the college authorities be- gan at cnce to make plans for carrying on the work of the law school. Reference books and others of immediate necessity were ordered ; bookshelves and other library equipment were placed in the old Y. M. C. A. room in Reid Hall. Classroom accommodations were provided in the lecture rooms of the various buildings on the campus. So the work of the law school is going forward without interruption. III. The Permanent Plan A meeting of the entire Board of Trustees was held on December 28. At this meeting the Board authorized the erection of a new building to be ready for occupancy during the session of 1935-1936. A committee on finance and a committee on the building were appointed to carry out the plans. The firm of Carneal, Johnston, and Wright, of Richmond, Virginia, will supervise the con- struction of the building. A firm of national reputation for a special acquaintance with the Georgian architecture of the Colonial Virginia type will be selected to act as consultants. The new building will be set back in line with Washington Hall, and its fagade will be a replica of that of Newcomb Hall, thus completing the symmetry of the entire group of buildings in the famous colonnade. The nesv Tucker Hall is planned to be larger and more commodious than its predecessor. The finance committee and a representative of the alumni arc raising the funds with which the new structure will be built, appealing to the sons of Washington and Lee in this crisis; the response wiM determine when the plans already made can be carried forward.

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CALYX FRANCIS PENDLETON GAINES A.B.. A.M.. PH.D., LITT.D.. LLD. PRESIDENT YOUNG alumnus, a graduate of five years ago, vvrites me: I am not sure that while I was a student I paid a great deal of attention to the intangible values of Washington and Lee, the sense of historic personages, the beauty that surrounded us, the customs of honor and courtesy that slowlv permeated the soul of us all. But these things are meaning more to me as each year passes. It is my earnest hope, gentlemen of the class of 1935, and it is mv deep conviction, that vour experience through the future years will be much like his, a revelation of the deep significance of certain intangible values which Washington and Lee offers. To this end I trust that this annual will be a svmbol. £ fi C-v )u-A