A panorama of Yale is scarcely satisfactory. Rut the buildings facing the 'Green' (see Plate 1, photograph 3) are in the near sense Yak's 'front row.' Through the Phelps Gate way (at the centre) is entered the old campus, with its 'old fence.' the Nathan Hale statue and the 'Old South Middle' now nearly all that remains of the old Yale. On the south west corner of the campus are Vanderbilt Hall, the School of Fine Arts (where is housed the famous Jarvas collection of 13th to 17th cen tury Italian paintings, 'primitives') and the libraries. On the northwest are Dwight, Wright and Durfee Halls. Back of the campus group of dormitories on the site of the old Peabody Museum and taking up the entire block between High and York streets, there is now in course of erection a magnificent Memorial Quadrangle, the gift of Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness. Across the way (Elm street) is the gymnasium. The main extension of Yale is however, to the right and northerly from Battell Chapel. There follow, in the order named: (1) The Berkeley Court Blount avenue senes of buildings; (2) the Bicentennial group of buildings (Plates I and II); (3) the Sheffield Scientific School (on Prospect street and Hillhouse avenue); (4) the Sachem's Wood or Pierson-Sage squaregroup, including the Osborn Labora tories (Plate III), and the Sloan Physical Laboratory (with probably the site of new geologic-paleontologic laboratories) ; (5) con tinuing on Prospect street. the Forestry School and Botanic Garden, and (6) the Astronomi cal Observatory. The latter are about one mile northerly from the Phelps Gateway. The Medical Hall and the Medical School Labora tory lie to the west of the campus; the Uni versity Clinic Building is opposite the New Haven Hospital; the Forestry School oc cupies Marsh Hall, the house of the late Pro fessor Marsh in the Botanical Gardens. The old athletic field of 30 acres is situated about a mile and a half west of the campus, and ad joining is the new field of 100 acres, including the Yale Bowl which covers 25 acres, and seats over 60,000 spectators. In this great amphi
theatre are held the football games and various open air spectacles and pageants more or less closely associated with university life and in terests. The gun club range and Armory are near by. The Adee Boat House is on the har bor, and at Gale's Ferry on the Thames River are quarters for university and freshman squads and equipment for crew training for the final races. The students maintain a Chris tian Association, an Athletic Association; numerous literary, dramatic and technical so cieties, and social and special literary and technical clubs. In addition to the university dormitories, a number of student fraternities have fine homes for their membership. There are also the chapter houses or ',tombs' of these fraternities, of more or less individualistic architecture, and one of the odd attractions of the university zone westerly and northerly from the "Green.' Among these are the three senior society tombs. 'Skull and Bones," 'Scroll and Key' and the 'Wolf's Head,' with the Sheffield and Snake' and Phi Gamma Delta. They are full of local interest and color, and unfailingly arrest the visItor's attention. A chapter of Phi Beta Kappa is also located at Yale At the time of cwt.!. Into the World War in 1917, professors and other officers numbered 609, and the total number of students was 3,306.
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