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Page 22 text:
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what is Western? Some say a rather small -white- columned group of buildings situated high on the hills of a mid-w estern town . . . others say it ' s friendliness — saying Hi! to everyone on campus . . . others — an acquaintance with books, men, ideas . . . Some say it ' s a song, or a prof, or a friend . . . We strongly suspect it ' s a combination of all . . . We know Western ' s not perfect — it has all the faults of a democracy — but somehow w e feel that a spirit has been captured here — an atti- tude that sets this school apart from all others — an idea that makes it exactly w hat America is . . . Western ow es that spirit to its sons and daughters for it is through them that it lives . . . Yesterday ' s Westernites are gone — here are today ' s . . . ' iIK 3r l m,U COLLEGE I
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Page 21 text:
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LOOKING AHEAD . . . This picture will be remem- bered as the frontispiece of the 1940 Brown and Gold. Then, as now, it symbolized normal college life . . The students in it have long since left Western — to teach, to start families, to fight, to die in war . . We be- lieve that they typify what we are looking ahead to . . normal peaceful college life . . a bal- anced proportion of fellows and girls . . real happiness . . good times . - We are confident that these things will return . . We ' re looking ahead, too, to an unprece- dented expansion of our campus and to the new Western Michigan college. Big things are in Western ' s future; new additions and improve- ments of present buildings will be made and a broad building program for the new campus on the Arcadia golf course grounds will be put into effect as soon as materials and man-power are available. Immediate additions include plans for an enlarged Union building with a new and roomier location for the Soda Bar, a girls ' recreation room, and facilities for college guests; a new training school and high school; several new dormitories; and a chapel. Long- range plans envision an auditorium, line arts building, science building, and a student activi- ties building. During these war years a definite need has been felt for a chapel on Western ' s campus. A fund for that purpose has been established to which the families and friends of Western service men and women who have died in the service of their country have contributed. Other individuals and organizations ftave also given generously to the fund. The chapel is to be one of the first buildings erected and will set the theme and color scheme for the remainder of the proposed campus. Its architecture will be modern, reflecting a youth- ful, functional spirit. As the Brown and Gold goes to press, the architect ' s designs for the chapel involve a general facade as in the sketch below and in- clude altars for Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish students, a seating capacity of 350 people, a bell tower connected to the main building by a pergola, and a garden to surround the whole chapel. In addition to the main door, entrances from the garden to the two altars are proposed. We who are at Western now will probably have left by the time the chapel and other build- ings which are to form a nucleus for the new college campus are erected; but we look forward to it with a sincere feeling of pride. We can only hope that the Western Way — the spirit, the traditions, the attitude, which we and those before us have developed here will carry over to the new school and that that spirit will in- crease and grow more powerful as the school grows. 15 '
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