The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, September 23, 1947, Image 6
PAGE SIX 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. 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