Bright College Years

A cathedral of scholarship - Sterling LIbrary. Beyond its obvious attributes, it has wonderful acoustics for singing groups, and the graffiti in the stacks goes back I don't know how far. I didn't check to see if my contributions were still there.

Every doorway is unique.

The women's table, designed by Maya Lin. It's inscribed with each year since women were allowed to attend, with the number attending in that year. I'm not sure this child gets the significance - hopefully it won't be an issue in any way by the time she's ready to matriculate. 
Inside Beinecke Library it glows through the marble walls. 


Is there something symbolic and interesting about this picture - the mix of old and new, perhaps? I appreciate the effort the school is making to environmentally sensitive. 

Not quite sure who this fellow is - the inscriptions are illegible and apparently in Greek. He was presiding, somewhat ignominiously, over a giant tent set up for the reunion. 

Nathan Hale, and the building he lived in, in1775. 

Much of the campus was built in the 1930's with gothic cathedral-style carvings. When I went to school here I never looked at them very closely. Now that I've seen real gothic cathedrals in Europe I paid more attention, noticing the elaborate and beautiful workmanship and the fact that all the imagery is secular, not religious.