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Title: Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Sigma Phi Epsilon
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Publisher: Sigma Phi Epsilon
Contributing Library: The Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity
Digitizing Sponsor: Sigma Phi Epsilon Educational Foundation

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s undoubtedly the most characteristic and most artistic piece ofacademic architecture in America. Purely classical in spirit, inex-pensive in material, severely elegant in proportion, they shine intheir chaste simplicity like a bit of Hellas set amid the abundantgreenery of the Virginia hills. The great quadrangle which theyenclose is about one thousand feet long and three hundred feetwide at the broadest point. The dominant structure is theRotunda, set centrally at the northern end, modeled quite exactlyfrom the Roman Pantheon, and devoted now to the uses of theUniversity library. It rises from a base composed of four rec-tangular apartments, connected below by graceful colonnades, andcovered above by a flat roof, which constitutes a continuouspromenade about the building, and is guarded by a handsomebalustrade. Elegant Corinthian porticos give admission to themain library room, a single-domed department, with galleries forbooks carried by a beautiful peristyle of Corinthian columns.
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CONTRIBUTIONS. 141 At the southern end stands the main academic building, contain-ing a. noble auditorium fashioned like a classic amphitheatre,with wings devoted to the use of the several academic schools.On the eastern side stands the Physical Laboratory, built fromthe gift of the late Charles B. Rouss. On the western side is theMechanical Laboratory. Connecting the Rotunda with this newgroup in the Ionic style, and the original buildings of Jefferson—five partitions on either side, with intervening room for dormi-tories and offices, all united by a fine Doric colonnade. Parallelwith these are the eastern and western ranges of separate dormi-tories for students. Among the more recent buildings are theUniversity Hospital, with a capacity of 120 beds, a new Y. M. C. A. building, and a large Refectory. Otis Marshall. Pittsburg Almni Chapter. On April 19th the alumni in Pittsburg, at the request ofBro. J. J. OSullivan, met in his office to consider the forming ofan alumni chapter. The

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