The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-20
VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY
IN SUMMERTIME DRESS
That's What Really Is for Bachelors Block Has Feminine
Aspect These Days With Skirts Supreme and Carames and
Embroeres Replacing the Pipes and Cigarettes Of Winter

provides q small auditorium. seat
ing about ESQ persons, with appa-
ratus for moving pictures: . manual
training shop below: q room for do
mestic science; q pedagogic museum;
an assembly room for the University
dent OF the University. the dean Of
the University and for the registrar.
In tho basement Is an apartment
marked "Sound-Proof Room" which
might suggest that the primitive
methods Of the older pedagogy were
to be practiced here. but doubtless
the sound-proof room Is really des-
tined for more humane uses.
The new educational building IL just
beginning: but the annex to the Colon
made club has walls up, roof on. pias-
terers busy, and within a few months
will be ready for occupation. Built by
the joint efforts Of the Society Of
Alumni and the club. 1t II to cost about
$4,000. A long. low. lockerless struc-
ture OF brick. deathly plain. II extends
across the whole breadth OF the club
garden, upon which It opens 1t adds
to the accommodations OF the club
large loung1ng room. eight bed rooms
with baths and closets. and rooms in
the basement for cards. billiards and
pool. Very attractive will be the
columned pergola, extending along the
whole garden front Vines Will be
trained up the columns and overhead.
Long windows will give access from
all the rooms to this vine-clad asylum
from the summer heats, and here the
professors and the alumni will fore
gather and In trimming beakers of
ice water pledge the memories OF the
good old times.
Soon the home OF the old Temper
ance union will be no more. Students
of the sixties and seventies have not
forgotten how the more tovfal candi-
dates for a degree on the approach
OF the final examinations would march
down from the lawn arm in arm sing
ing:
"oh, here we comet Oh. here we
come.
To Join the Temperance union!"
take a pledge OF total abstinence. 70
expire at nightfall OF the last work
Ing day of the session and under this
aegis march on to graduation. After
the Temperance union was disbanded
for lack of members. its property was
turned over to the Y. NJ. C. A. as a
sort OF heir-at-law, and now the ON
Gals OF the association are putting up
a new building on the ground In the
rear of the old hall, and the for
lorn structure, where temperance lee
lures were once dispensed upstairs
and drinks administered In the drug
store below. is to be torn down and
carted away to the dust heaps.
The new building Is TO cost $4,000.
II Is designed by a local architect,
Mr.. Eugene Bradbury. and IL the fn-
ished structure is az good as the pic
ture. Messrs. Ferguson, Calrow 4
Taylor, OF Norfolk. Va. who have
been entrusted with the other two
buildings. will have to look to their
laureis. The wing nearest the 'univer-
sity will be given TO well-equipped
modern postoffice. In addition there
will be four handsome store-rooms-
The rentals will be used. first to liqui-
date the cost OF erection: then TO
maintain the various benevolent en-
terprises OF the Y. NJ. c. A.
The location Of the new building
has been so made as to render poesi-
BILE a decent gateway into the grounds
OF the university. Ever since the Of
ficials of the Chesapeake and Ohio
proctor into authorizing the erection
OF the frightful bridge which now
spans University avenue. the entrance
to the State university has been thor
oughiy squalid and disreputahle. Cor
porate contempt for beauty and dig
nifty never made a more insolent dis
play OF It's offensive qualities The
bridge seems likely to remain; but
visitors who pass beneath It's yoke win
before long have their eyes saluted
with . handsome gateway. . broad
drive winding up among the verdant
lawns and spreading trees Of Jeffer-
sons university. and In the back
ground the noble outlines OF tho ro-
tunda lifting themselves against the
azure Of the western sky. Let w hope
that some generous friend Of learn
Ing will b. moved 70 adoFn this gate
way with sculptures and bronxes not
unworthy OF the most beautiful uni
versity In America