Westminster College - Argo Yearbook (New Wilmington, PA)

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UOPOSED Group plan STMINSTER- LLEGE h. Johnson 5, N6, C .sTli Pa. PLA.YING FlEl-0 O M A H O O JT

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The New Campus and Buildings P R H S I [5 E N r W A L L A C E liLMi ihc moiu cIclinilL ' cle clopmcnt pn ,L;ram lor W estminster C]c)lle, ie was adopted b ' the lioard ol ' I rristees some lew ears a. o, the area of the actual (]am|uis was discoxered to be but little oxer four acres, althou, h the (College had ori, inail ' owned a more extensixe acreage tt) the south. 10 [ roxiiie the area within which the dexelop- ment program could be workeel out to adx antage. it xxas resolxed bx ' the Boarel of Trustees of the Cjillege lo dispose of scattered real estate hold- ings in and about New W ilmmgton. mcluding w hat had become know n as the C ollege farm , lor the acc]uisition ol sutiicient jiropertx Ixing south of the present (Campus. This new (Campus will comprise about twentx-six acres, including the athletic held. The organizing mind out of which the dexelopment program for the (x)llege is unlolding, not unconscious ol the imagerx ' of l iebrexx ' ong descriptive ol an historic campus, licautijtil III c ' U ' vat.uii. the joy of the icholc caitl) Is Mount .ion. oil the sides of the north 1 l?e city of tf.w threat l iiig. has appropriate!,! the natural topograph) ' for the articulation of the x ' arioLis buildings ol the College into such relation to one another as that one ma ' exclaim oxer it when linishcLl that, like Jerusalem, West- minster is a citx ' compactlx biult and fair. W hen title is acc|uired to all of it, the land Ix ing directix ' south of the present Campus to the width of the latter, to the new gxmnasium, a distance of about eight lumdreLl feet will be graded into a mead, practicallx ' lex ' el east aiKl xxesl. xxith a grailual slope tow.ird the south of about thirtx ' feet for the entire length. The plotting and ilexelopment of the new Campus xxill suggest and maintain the dominating signilicance of Old .Main in the phxsical plant of the (jillege. hen the grading is completed, ( )ld .Main will be left seatei.1 upon the highest elex ation on the ( am| )Us, its center axis nordi and south determining the axis o( the nexx ' (.ampus and conse- Nine