Evening star., 1924-12-05
CITY TO EXPRESS
SPIRIT IN .SPiRE
Pittsburgh University Ca
thedraI Intended as SYM
Dol of Achievement.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, December "a
building of great height Ito express
the spirit OF Pittsburgh achievement
with such force and such grasp of it's
sublimity that the whole world will
understand" is the underlying idea of
the University of Pittsburgh's 52-
story Cathedral of Learning" TO be
erected at the entrance to Schenley
Park and near the site of present
facilities of the institution. The
cathedral will cost $l0.000,000.
Chancellor ]. C. Bowman expressed
this idea as the principal purpose of
the trustees in planning this radical
departure in university building con-
srtuction, pointing out that most edu-
cational buildings were long and low
modelled after the structures of an
Client Greece and Rome. They sug-
gest calmness and repose, he said.
whereas the building planned for
Pittsburgh will suggest achievement
and ambition for further achievement
Repose, he said, is a reward for labor
performed and is not the atmosphere
in which youth should prepare for
the struggles of life.
Tells of Living VIII.
THE Cathedral of Learning" Chan
cellor Bowman said, lis to be the
greatest structure ever erected by any
community to tell its own living will.
The Washington Monument and the
Lincoln Memorial in Washington are
the expressions of nation, not of the
City of Washington, but this building
will be an expression of the spirit of
Pittsburgh. The building is to be
high, not for the sake of being high,
but for the power of inspiration and
for the sublimity which great height,
together with right proportions, mass.
lines, carvings, friezes and pointed
Gothic arches can give. BY it's archl-
lecture and by its purpose the build
ing is to record in an atmosphere or
worship the effort of those who made
Pittsburgh what it Is and to inspire
10 still higher achievement those who
are to come 1t is for this reason
that there will be no tower on the
building.
The Cathedral of Learning" is
hut one of two ambitious building
projects launched by the university.
The other is the 100000 stadium
which will be ready for use next
Fall. 1t is being built of steel and
concrete and covers, a tract 45O by
500 feet. Its seating capacity will
be $4,000
VIII Provide for 10000.
start eaerly next year, 1t will stand
on a I4-acre plot facing Schenley
Park, in the heart of Pittsburghs 8
"bilIion-d dollar educational section"
1t will accommodate 10000 students
and virtually all departments of the
university will be housed within its
high walls except the Colleges of
Medicine and Dentistry, which will
occupy the present buildings of the
university.
Three years were required to
draw the plans, which call for
Gothic style architecture in white
Kentucky limestone. 1t will be $50
feet high, $50 feet long and ESQ feet
wide. Four main doorways, 80 feet
high. will provide entrances to the
building and 16 highspeed elevators
will carry students to the class
rooms on the upper floors. Charles
T. KIauder of Philadelphia drew the
plans.
The cost of construction per cubic
foot in . q. high building is some
what higher than the corresponding
cost in a low building. Chancellor
Bowman said. but added that this
greater cost lis largely offset by a
greater percentage of effective area
obtainabIe in the high building.
High construction offers obviously
better ventilation, better light, less
noise, less dust. The cost of heat,
of upkeep and of janitorial service
favors high construction. The foun-
dation of the building would re-
quire about one and three-fourths
acres, taken near the center of the
quadrangle. This would leave more
than 12 of the IA acres for other
buildings in the future. If the space