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...happy mean between a brick box of four sides and a palace. Mrs. Van Rensselaer says of the new Medical School building, that "the task was to build a great square box, wholly of brick, with no ornamentation and with the necessity for floods of light in the interior. Yet there is beauty in the result-architectural beauty of the strictest kind, though no atom of that 'picturesqueness' which popular criticism falsely considers its equivalent." Of Sever Hall, the writer remarks, "that there is much more originality in its quiet success than in many more striking works, and that...
...voluntary a few of the athletes of the university, who are in need of very little physical exercise, will do most of the work in the gymnasium for the entire university, while those students to whom from their physical condition gymnastic exercise is especially necessary, seldom see the interior of the gymnasium. This carelessness of many students as to their physical condition is one of the worst concomitants in our educational system, and one which is especially to be guarded against...
...half a mile farther up a hilly road is Hanover; a store or two, a few conventional wooden dwelling houses and a substantial brick in comprise the village. Then come the college buildings, which are interesting in their way, but by no means beautiful. Their plainness of exterior and interior is indeed depressing...
...voluntary, a few of the athletes of the university, who are in need of very little physical exercise, will do most of the work in the gymnasium for the entire university, while those students to whom from their physical condition gymnastic exercise is especially necessary, seldom see the interior of the gymnasium. This carelessness of many students as to their physical condition is one of the worst concomitants in our educational system, and one which is especially to be guarded against...
...beautiful piece of sculpture is located in what may be called the second story. It is a spacious apartment of solid stone, the walls of which are paneled to receive appropriate inscriptions, and is lighted from the roof. The sarcophagus is placed so as to be visible from the interior of the chapel. The wall back of the pulpit was removed and a graceful arch formed, through which the monument is seen to great advantage. General Lee is represented as lying on his military cot, with a spread thrown over him. His right arm rests upon his breast...