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Newcomers Will Find Many Spots of Interest on Campus
Known as one of the most beautiful college sites in the east,
the Penn State campus is dotted with many points of general in
terest to the sight-seer and of special interest to the student who
expects to live and study in the community for three years.
The main campus is composed of about 235 acres of flowing
foothills of the Allegheny Moun
College Heights, the campus
slopes to the College avenue level
of the boro of State College.
Mt. Nittany
The traditional geographical
symbol of the College since its
founding has been green-topped
Mount Nittany, overlooking the
front campus. The 2,000-foot
mountain is famed in Penn State
song and tradition.
The nickname of College ath
letic teams, Nittany Lions, was
acquired from Mount Nittanv.
Once privately owned, the 517-
acre mountain was bought in re
cent years by Lion’s Paw. a senior
honor to insure its reten
tion as a College landmark.
Old Main Tower
Originally oul'it as a wooden
structure on top of the College’s
first building, the present Old
Main tower has been rebuilt
three times It was designed by
Charles Z. Klauder and finished
in 1932 at a cost of more than
$BOO,OOO.
The tower view covers many
miles of Nittanv Valley and the
crest of Mount Nittany itself can
be seen. The clock in the tower
was a gift of the Class of 1904,
while the Westminster Chimes
that toll class hours was a gift
of the Class of 1937.
Lion Shrine
The most photographed spot on
the campus the gathering place
for student rallies, and the spot
most often viewed by visitors is
the Lion Shrine. Modeled after a
lion which once inhabited the
Nittany Valley, the full-sized
statue was carved by Heinz
Warneke. famous sculptor.
The Shrine, a gift of the Class
of 1940. symbolized the well
known Nittanv Lion emblem of
College athletic teams since 1907.
Situated at the intersection of
Burrowes and Curtin roads.
By Richard H. Hoenig
;ains. Frnm the western side on
across from the entrance to Rec
reation Hall, the Shrine is a land
mark with which new students
become familiar earrly in their
campus life.
Geology Monument
The Geology Monument, an
other well known spot on the
campus, is a polylith erected of
281 samples ox commercial build
ing stones from all over the state.
Thomas C. Hopkins, an assistant
professor of economic geology in
1898, had the monument built to
test the ability of the stones to
withstand weather conditions in
this climate.
Except for the base, each stone
in the obelisk is arranged in its
oroner geologic age, oldest at the
bottom. Over the half centurv
some of the stones have cracked,
some are badly discolored, and
yet some are still in the same
condition as the year the monu
ment was built.
The Geology Monument is be
tween the Armory and Main En
gineering, directly off the Mall.
Fresco
Henry Vamum Poor’s Land-
Grant Fresco is the best known
work of art on the campus. A gift
of the Class of 1932. the painting
is a true fresco, painted direqtly
on wet plaster. The Class of 1946
and the All-College Cabinet con
tributed towards the extension of
the fresco which will be com
pleted along the two sides of the
main lobbv of Old Main, where it
is situated.
The figure of Abraham Lincoln
dominates the mural because of
his historic signing of the Morrill
Land-Grant Act and because the
artist wished to make him a
"symbol of hope and faith.”
Poor’s purpose was to portray the
relation of the College to the ag-
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANI/
THE NINE VIEWS of buildings on the campus are, top left. Grange Hall; center left. Dairy
Husbandry; lower left. Power Plant; lop center, Buckhout Laboratories, the botany building; cen
ter, Armory Tower; lower center, Chemical Engineering Building: top right, McAllister Hall;
center right the Infirmary; and lower right Dairy Barn.
ricpltural and mechanical life of
the state.
The Willow
“The Willow” has been de
scribed as an inseparable part of
Penn State tardition. The orig
inal tree, planted by a professor
of horticulture and agriculture
about 1859, was a marker in a
dirt road leading up to "The Col
lege” (Old Main).
The slip from which the tree
was raised was brought by Dr.
Evan Pugh, first president of the
College, from a willow on the
grounds of the noet Pope at
Twickenham, F n "ignd. Tt later
became the subject of many
nieces of poetry.
In 1923 the tree fell, but a cut
ting which had been taken two
years earlier was eventually
planted near where the first wil
low stood. A stone with an en
graved plaque and a water foun
tain now mark the original spot
on the Mall.
Atherton Grave
Dr. George W. Atherton, presi
dent of the College for almost a
quarter of a century, from 1882
to 1906, is buried on the north
side of Schwab Auditorium. It
was his desire to be buried on the
campus. The site was chosen be
cause the Auditorium was con
structed during his administra
tion. The student body grew from
87 to 898 and the faculty from 17
to 65 during the years of his pres
idency
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