.^ .y / <, y Reed College Its Grounds and Buildings and Plans ibr the College fcr\vfcmen: Portland Oregon MCMXIV Publiskt by Reed G)l lege Reed College // Its Grounds and Buildings and Plans fcr the College lor\vbmen: Portland Oregon MCMXIV • B #»j3a •» » -J » J ^ 3 9 » ' , J -> > ^ ■ L Publisht by Reed G)l lege HJIItllllllllllllllllMllllllllltllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIItlllllllllllllHIIIIIIIIIIlilllllllllllllllllllltllllirillllllllllllllllllltlllM a BOOKLET SUMMING UP THE DOMINANT CHARACTER- ISTICS OF REED COLLEGE AND POINTING THE WAY TO FUTURE DEVELOPMENT— I PRESENTING plans of buildings designd by Doyle and Patterson, Architects, j I of Portland, Oregon — | I BY MEANS of half-tone illustrations furnisht thru the kindness of The t I oHmerJcan cRrcMtect— | I THE TEXT approved by the Trustees, Faculty and Students of Reed College; set | I forth in the briefer spellings recommended by the Simplified Spelling Board— | I THE WHOLE produced by the press of Wells & Company at Portland, Oregon, | I in December, Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen. | ^tllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllMIIMIIirillinilllllllllllliillllinilllllllllltillllltlllllllMllllltlllllllllinillllllMllllllttlllllllllltllllllllllHIIIIIIIIItMIIIttlllllll^ -«»*a*» „ ,. *v^ r fi. . !t^ I*' hi£:^->^^i^i'^t 'f^^-\'^ -^^^ ''J'W ■%-,;■ Tt** /^j :./Ai/«r| ■*; *, Group plan of Reed College for future development REED COLLEGE • •••••• ••' • * • •• jEED COLLEGE was made possible in 1904 by the will of Amanda Wood Reed, of Portland, made in accordance with the wishes of Simeon G. Reed, her husband, who died in Portland in 1895. Mr. and Foundation Mrs. Reed came to Oregon from Massachusetts in 1851. The will named five trustees, a self-perpetuating body, and wisely left to them the widest latitude in deciding the type of institution to be founded. The Secretary of the General Education Board, Dr. Wallace Buttrick, made two trips to the Northwest for the purpose of studying educational needs. He sub- mitted a full report to the Board. On motion of Dr. Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard University, the Board declared that the greatest educational need of Portland was a college of liberal arts and sciences. They further concurd with Dr. Buttrick in the opinion that there was no better spot in the United States for founding a college of the proposed type. In 1910, after taking counsel with other eminent educational leaders and after making an extensiv survey of Northwestern institutions, the Trus- tees decided to establish first a College of Arts and Sciences. The College began in temporary quarters in 1911 and in permanent buildings in 1912. The campus covers eighty-six acres in the City of Portland, on the east side of the Willamette River about three miles from the center of the City. Forty acres were the gift of the Ladd Estate Company. About seven Beginnings hundred thousand dollars, which is all of the accumulated income from endowments except the amount appropriated for the current budget of the College, have been expended on grounds, buildings and equipment. No additional funds are M17991 REED COLLEGE: ITS DOMINANT CHARACTERISTICS d%r ^ t>^V ^K REED COLLEGE: PLANS FOR DEVELOPMENT View from the Woodstock Avenue entrance available for buildings, since the will forbids the use of any part of the present en- dowment for this purpose. The endowment consists chiefly of forty-two pieces of real estate in the City of Portland. This guarantees the future support of the College and fittingly links its material prosperity with that of the City which it is establisht to serv. The greater part of the endowment, however, is not now income-bearing and prob- ably cannot wisely be made to contribute to the support of the College Endowment for some years to come. The net income for the fiscal year 1913-14 was only seventy-two thousand dollars. About forty per cent of the gross income from endowment in that year was given to the City of Portland, not in the form of edu- cation for its youth but in taxes. The immediate needs of the College, therefore, are not met by the endowment or by fees; the College finds it utterly impossible to pay the expenses this year of the work that is rightly demanded of it, and therefore important work remains undone; for the College, in accord with the fixt policy of the Trustees, has never had a det or a deficit. Reed College is undenominational. The will provides that the institution "for- ever be and remain free from sectarian influence, regulation or con- trol, permitting those who may seek its benefits to aflfiliate with such Religious but ' -^ " non-sectarian religious societies as their consciences may dictate." No sectarian con- siderations enter into the election of Trustees or Faculty or the admission of s e O JS M a T3 REED COLLEGE: PLANS FOR DEVELOPMENT students. There are religious meetings — daily chapel and Sunday vesper servises, Bible study classes and Christian Association activities — in which all may take part without compulsion. The servises are open to the public. The eagerness of the College to provide the best possible conditions for the devel- opment of strong character is not shown merely or mainly in chapel servises, but as well in the requirements for admission, the choice of the Faculty, the scope and spirit of the curriculum, the refusal to tolerate neglect of studies, the policy in athletics, the development of self - reliance and independent Moral education government among students, the co-operation of students and Fac- ulty in all community interests, and the uncompromising elimination of the most injurious activities of "college life." As the notorious failures of college students to use their opportunities as they should are due partly to ignorance and the lack of timely, specific guidance, the College offers all freshmen a systematic course of in- struction, thruout the year, dealing with the actual problems of college life. The course comprizes the following topics: the origin and development of the American college, the purpose of the college, departments of study, election of courses, prin- ciples and methods of study, note-taking, use of the library, student honesty, general reading and mental recreation, personal hygiene, athletics, fraternity life, co-educa- tion, college government, college spirit, religious affairs, the relation of the college to the community and the choice of a vocation. The other courses that are pland especially for first year students aim to present a comprehensiv and humanized view of mathematics, literature, natural science and social institutions. These great fields of human knowledge are offerd in broad outlines as liberal rather than technical education. The introductory course in natural science, for example, aims to open up the whole field in its vital relations to human experience, and to reveal the fundamental principles of all the sciences. The course is conducted by the three men in charge of the departments of biology, chemistry, and physics. In the course in College Life, the President and various other members of the Faculty present such instruction as they can give which experience has proved of most value in enabling beginners to gain the utmost from the College, with the least waste of time and effort. In all courses, the best instruction the College is able to offer is provided for freshmen. The College desires only as many students as its resources and equipment can thoroly care for. It has had from the beginning many more applicants than it could wisely admit. There were two hundred and sixty-three Limited applicants for admission before a temporary building could be erected. Unless additional equipment is provided at once by private gifts, the College will be obliged to decline many applicants who deserv its advantages. REED COLLEGE: ITS DOMINANT CHARACTERISTICS The Reed College community in tlie fall of nineteen hundred and fourteen Admission is based not merely on the completion of a secondary school course of four years, or its equivalent, but on physical fitness, on scholarship above the average, on evidence of good character, earnestness of purpose, intellectual Earnest enthusiasm, qualities of leadership and devotion to the true ideals of purpose required higher cducation. Young people whose interests or habits are inconsist- ent vi^ith these ideals are not welcome. The whole institution is organ- ized and conducted for those students who are determind to gain the best possible preparation for the serious responsibilities of life. Others should not apply for admission; they would be disappointed. As the traditional college entrance examinations have neither discoverd those qualified for college work nor kept out the others, and as ordinary certificates are vague and uncertain, varying from school to school and from subject to subject, often in extreme and always in unknown degrees, Reed College tries to other take advantage of every other possible source of evidence concerning the entrance n t i mi • • • i ^ i- -i tests fitness of candidates. The examination includes a personal interview by the President with each prospectiv student, as a result of which some are discouraged from undertaking the work of Reed College, some are advised to enter institutions better suited to their needs, and some of those who do enter the College have clearer ideas of the responsibilities involvd. 8 REED COLLEGE: PLANS FOR DEVELOPMENT Only qualified students admitted As a supplementary effort to find out which applicants for admission are best qualified, the department of psychology has applied twenty carefully devised mental tests to every student who has ever been admitted to the College. The correlations between relativ standing in other entrance tests and in exam^inrttrnJ these psychological tests, and the correlations between achievement in the mental tests and achievement in the studies of the College are sought as guid- ance in judging candidates for admission. No one is admitted until he has passed the physical examinations of the College Physicians and of the Directors of Physical Education. This does not mean that physical perfection or unusual strength is required; it does mean that the college community is garded against contagious disease before the exa^mhTitions opening day and against the admission of students whose helth would be endangerd by stringent scholarship requirements. It means further that the College has, from the outset of the student's course, the necessary basis for pre- scribing his physical exercizes and otherwise promoting his helth. No special students and no preparatory students are admitted, and no students are admitted on condition. That is to say, only those are accepted who are judged, by means of the above tests, to be wholly pre- pared, before entrance, for the work of Reed College. The government of the students, in- cluding the conduct of examinations and the administration of the dwelling halls, is almost exclusivly in the hands of the Stu- dent Council, elected annually by vote of all the students. The Faculty has made no rules for conduct or disciplin and has never overruled a decision of the Student Council. There is no "honor system" at Reed College, devised to cover certain hours or certain exercizes : there is a prin- ciple of honor which is regarded as suffi- cient to cover all phases of stu- dent life at all times. When nearly the entire Faculty left the College for three days last spring to attend the annual Pacific Coast Conven- tion of Scientific Societies, at Seattle, the students took entire charge of the insti- crystal springs Lake student government REED COLLEGE: ITS D03IINANT CHARACTERISTICS Sally Port — Entrance to the hall now used for women 10 REED COLLEGE: PLANS FOR DEVELOPMENT tution, including the conduct of all the classes and the administration offises. The interesting fact is not that the students were willing and able to do this, but that the procedure was taken by everybody as a matter of course. It was important for the Faculty to attend the meetings of fellow scientists; it was important for the stu- dents that the work of the College should go on. So it went on: they did not even stop to discuss the matter. Physical education, including careful examinations and individual guidance by the College Physicians and Directors, and wholesome athletic sports, especially com- petitiv games in the open air, are provided for all, teachers and students, men and women, for the sake of joy, recreation, helth and development. Inter- collegiate athletic contests are excluded because they are antagonistic to ^r^'au*^^ the physical development of students and to scholarship, as well as because they always necessitate unwarranted expense and usually involv more serious evils. The Reed College ideal for athletics is out-of-door games in moderation for all stu- dents, especially those who need them most, insted of the excesses of intercollegiate games for a few students, especially those who need them least. In the fall of 1914, every student in Reed College receivd some of the benefits of athletics; about eighty per cent of the students engaged in some form of exer- cize at least three times a week, approved by the department of phys- ical education. There is room for everybody, — baseball and football Athletics fields, tennis courts, a quarter-mile track, a gymnasium, a lake, a river not business' and the open country. The Faculty take part in athletics on the same terms with the students and for the same purposes; it may be said, incidentally, that the Faculty teams have held their own in tennis, basketball, handball and base- ball. The expenses of athletics are insignificant; an average of sixteen cents per student was the amount collected and expended by the Student Council for one year. In a word, athletics at Reed College are conducted as education, not as business. The participation of the Faculty in the athletic tournaments, in the clubs, dances, campus day events and other social gatherings is a natural result of the dominant aims of the College. The traditional gulf between students and Faculty appears to become, at Reed College, an imaginary line. The The Faculty Faculty have been chosen primarily as enthusiastic teachers, men and women eager to make vital contact with individual students as human beings. Social affairs at Reed College are inexpensiv and simple, as becomes higher edu- cation, and are always subordinate to the main purposes of the College. There are no fraternities and no sororities, because the College prefers a whole- '^ A social some, sensible, democratic social life of the entire institution. The dwell- democracy ing halls and the main building have social rooms for students and teachers 11 REED COLLEGE: ITS DOMINANT CHARACTERISTICS A detail of the dwelling halls for men 12 REED COLLEGE: PLANS FOR DEVELOPMENT and their friends. All but a few of the students live at home or in the dwelling halls on the campus. Money cannot purchase for any student better board, living accommodations, social opportunities or instruction than is provided for all stu- dents. This is one of the minor conditions which has made Reed College a social democracy. Another is respect for productiv labor: a large majority of the students are partially self-supporting. From the outset, most of the work in connection with the care of grounds, buildings, dining-hall, gymnasium, laundry, bookstore, labora- tories, power plant, electrical equipment, fish experiment house and car- penter shop, and most of the multigrafing, typewriting, and other clerical Support work has been performd by students as means of self-support. This has given the whole student body a fine sense of proprietorship and responsibility. For this work, seventy per cent of the men students who were in attendance thruout the year 1913-14, receivd income from the College. Various loan funds have been establisht thru generous gifts of friends of the College. There are no free scholar- ships; all students are on exactly the same basis. Every worthy student is helpt who has alredy shown a markt capacity for helping himself. The tuition fee of one hundred dollars covers about one-fourth of the cost to the College for the instruction of each student. The other three-fourths is paid from the income from endowment. Board and rooms are furnisht at cost. The present cost of board is four dollars and fifty cents per week, and the charge for each room, regardless of location, is forty dollars for each semester. Expenses of students Courses of study The courses of instruction provide what is regarded as the best foundation for the professions of law, politics, medicin, ministry, teaching, social servis, journalism and business. The entire resources of the institution are devoted to a liberal educa- tion suitable for these careers. There are no departments of agriculture, domestic art, en- gineering, forestry, military science, music, mining or pharmacy. The College seeks to avoid the com- mon error of spreding thinly over too much ground. s - The requirements for graduation from Reed College cannot be stated in years of residence or merely in courses completed, much less in hours or units of work. All students are graded by proposed library entrance 13 REED COLLEGE: ITS DOMINANT CHARACTERISTICS relativ position accord- ing to a scientific sys- tem, based on a normal probability curv. Credit is given for quality as well as for quantity of work, and each student is recommended for a degree as soon as he earns it. During the last semester of his res- idence, the student takes a seminar in his major subject, in con- nection with which he prepares a thesis. A satisfactory thesis and final oral examination are required for the Bachelor's degree. Upon the recom- mendation of that member of the Faculty whom the student has chosen as his special counselor, the student comes up for the final oral examination in his major subject and closely related subjects, before a committee made up of the Faculty and of persons not otherwise connected with the College. This Final oral fl^al examination is not designd to cover particular courses of the examination ° -"^ curriculum; its purpose is to find out whether the student, at the time when he proposes to graduate from College, has a creditable grasp of his chief sub- ject of study. It is partly for bredth of view and a non-academic standard that not all the examiners are teachers of the candidate. From the outset. Reed College has been false to the venerable traditions of the American college of liberal arts; for its interests, its activities and its influence A detail of the dwelling halls for men 14 REED COLLEGE: PLANS FOR DEVELOPMENT The Faculty and social servis have extended far beyond its campus. In the three years of its life, the College has made many vital connections with the City, of some importance as social servis, and of incalculable benefit to the College because of the helthful reaction- ary influence upon it. Members of the Faculty have been activ in connection with innumerable organizations devoted to public wel- fare; the Oregon Civic League, for example, and the Oregon Social Hygiene Society, the Portland Vice Commission, the Recreation League, the Drama League, the Ad Club, the Young Men's Christian Association, the Greater Portland Plans Associ- ation, the Parent-Teachers' Association, the Society for Dental Education, the Public Library Association, the Portland Commercial Club, and the Consum- ers' League. The College has frequently had calls for assistance from various departments of the City Government and has conducted many inves- tigations as a basis for civic improvements. One of these was a sur- vey of Portland Vaude- ville and Motion Pic- ture Shows, made by a committee of sixty at the request of the Mayor of Portland. An- other was a compre- hensiv study of the most significant facts con- cerning four hundred and thirty -one of the unemployd men in Port- land. The City is con- stantly used as a labora- tory by the College, es- pecially by students of psychology, government and sociology. a detail of the main building— east end 15 REED COLLEGE: ITS DOMINANT CHARACTERISTICS The students and social servis The students are called upon for important aid in connection with such varied affairs as the city elections, the churches, the Jewish Neighborhood House, the Fra- zier Home, the Young Men's Christian Association, the Committee of One Hundred for Oregon Dry, the Good Roads work, the Red Cross, the Oregon Fish and Game Commission, the Municipal Court, and the Public Education Committee of the Social Hygiene Society. Alredy the annual spring conference of Reed College is lookt upon as a clearing house and source of inspiration for all organizations seeking to promote the welfare of the City. At the "Portland 1915 Conference" last May, for example, more than one hundred or- ganizations were repre- sented by speakers, exhibits and delegates. Several thousand of the most activ workers for the progress of the City met at Reed College for three days to set definit stakes for achievement, to interchange ideas, to enlist recruits, to arouse enthusiasm and to get results. Scores of societies, with di- verse objects and mem- bers, are co-operating with the College for the good of the City, eagerly and in fine spirit. Typical of the atti- tude of the College to- ward the City and of the willing response of the people is the success of the Reed College Ex- tension Course on "The Voter and the City of Chapel staircase Portland." This course 16 REED COLLEGE: PLANS FOR DEVELOPMENT of six lectures, illus- trated by three hundred lantern slides, aims to present to voters and prospectiv voters such vivid, concrete, non- partizan and accurate information concerning every phase of the City's business as may be most useful to the men and women of Portland in meeting their duties of citizen- ship. The lectures have alredy been attended by over thirty-five hun- dred people and are now being given by a member of the Student Council to the classes in Civics of the public schools of Portland and at the Central Library by a member of the Faculty. Extension Courses, open to everybody free of charge, are con- ducted at Reed College, at the Main Public Library, at the Branch Libraries and at churches and schools in various parts of the City of Portland. These courses began the year the College was founded. The attendance in 1913-1914 was over Extension courses four thousand. The Extension Courses for 1914-1915 include the follow- ing: The War, — Its Origins and Its Significance; The Voter and the City of Port- land; Natural Science; Supreme Achievements in European Literature; English Poets; Riddles of the Universe; The New History; The Development of the Drama; A Normal Course in Physical Education; and a weekly Conference on Labor Problems. Chapel staircase 17 REED COLLEGE: ITS DOMINANT CHARACTERISTICS Reed College reduces taxes Entrance to the College chapel Every contribution to the support of Reed College saves expenses for the City. If the present work of Reed College, in educating students, training teachers, pro- viding extension courses and free public lectures, became a municipal burden, it would demand at least one hundred thousand dollars a year of additional taxes. This work Reed College performs at no expense whatever to the City, and, in addition, pays thirty-eight thousand dollars in taxes. Opportunities for strengthening the work of Reed College are many and varied and attractiv. Everyone can do something; everyone can become a benefactor according to his insight and his ability. Endowment is needed for the Faculty; sixty thousand dollars will permanently provide for a professorship bettCT Coifege* ^^ 3,rt, or in music, or in government. Funds are needed for the maintenance of the Library; a gift of one thousand dollars would bring to the College the most important books of each year in a field of study the donor might name. Back files of magazines are immediate needs. One who is par- ticularly imprest with the value of extension courses might endow the City with lasting benefits by providing for this division of the work of the College. Any 18 REED COLLEGE: PLANS FOR DEVELOPMENT A view of the upper chapel staircase amount will start a loan fund for worthy students, and the good work will con- tinue, generation after generation. Frequently, for students of great power and promis, the difference between going on with higher education or renouncing the ambition forever is only fifty or one hundred dollars. These altruistic investments in human beings are the only ones that really yield exorbitant returns. Additional e equipment is much needed for botany, psychology, physics, chemis- try and zoology. A gift of any amount will enable some one of these departments to carry forward an important scientific research which is now stopt for want of bare necessities. One thousand dollars would convert Crystal Springs Lake into a fish hatchery and biological experiment station of immediate value to the College and of ultimate value to the whole state. The eighty- six acres of campus and lakes offer ideal conditions for the development of botanical gardens. A telescope could be put to immediate use. Funds are needed for the new department of commerce and industries. A small endowment fund would enable the College to continue the publication of its Social Servis Bulletins. These are but a few of the ways in which private donors may now provide for necessary extensions of the work of Reed College. other ways of helping 19 REED COLLEGE: ITS DOMINANT CHARACTERISTICS Other universities and colleges receive sup- port from the Federal government, the state, the city, a religious denomination or And a final • t» i /-^ n .1 reason alumni. Reed College is the only one for helping that is wholly without these sources of aid. It has no political or sectarian connec- tions; it has no graduates. It therefore appeals strongly to men and women, who, owing no special allegiance to other types of institutions, believe in the principles of Reed College. Proposed Commons and College Union SECOND FLOOR. I I I I I I — Two of the four floors of the main building 20 g=® •t-JQ © ii ILi© !l] ^^fi£ ■M ll i' I® il I® effmT a ® ■® ££ ii ® U i:? f®>.i © Ii ■- © REED COLLEGE: ITS DOMINANT CHARACTERISTICS To get to Portland, take almost any road in the Northwest uiimiliiiiiiiiniiiii iiiiiii iiiimiii iiiii nun lllliiiil i iiimililimiiill i iiiiiiill i l l n i illiliiiiiimiim iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiiimill i miliilii mliili ii| PORTLAND is more redily accessible than any other location in the Northwest. It is the center of popula- tion for a territory twice as large as all the New England States. It is now the home city of more than 35,000 girls, twenty-one years of age and under. iiininiiiiiiiniiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiniiiiiniiitiiiiiniiiiiiinniiitiiiiiiMiiiiniiiiniiiitiiinnitniiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiniiiniiiiiiniiiiniiiiiiinitiniiiiiMiiiinniiiitiiiiitiiniiii^ 22 REED COLLEGE: PLANS FOR DEVELOPMENT 4ile4''Cy-\ 9 s»-'^- »-- •^-'S■■ ' Ui"^- .M|l|n^!C^^Hi9ljl < i Sketch of the proposed building for women THE PROPOSED BUILDING FOR WOMEN STUDENTS ARE THE PRESENT ACCOMMODATIONS FOR WOMEN ADEQUATE ? \HERE is now no dwelling hall whatever for women. Some of them are housed temporarily in one section of the dwelling halls for men. The building is overcrowded; suites intended for two students are occupied by three; and some of the men students, for whom there were no rooms in the Men's Hall, have been accommodated temporarily in the gymnasium, in the power house, and in the main building. There is no dining-hall for women. In another year, the one now in use will be large enough only for the men students. There is no gymnasium for women. At present they have the use of one wing of the gymnasium for men, but this makeshift does not even now provide sufficient lockers for all the women students. In another year the crowding will be worse. When, in addition to this, we consider the extension courses offerd in the gymnasium, open to the public without expense, and the further fact that the Reed College athletic policy makes far greater demand upon the gymnasium than is usual in colleges, the immediate need of a gymnasium for women is evident. There is no center of social life for women. Altho the College desires to avoid the highly artificial and psychologically injurious life that results from too rigid segregation of the sexes, and altho frequent opportunities for gatherings of the whole College are indispensable, it is nevertheless necessary that the women should have suitable rooms for independent social life. 23 REED COLLEGE: ITS DOMINANT CHARACTERISTICS Proposed building for women. First floor There are insufficient library and study-rooms for women. Even now the accom- modations of the main building are inadequate, and next year it will be necessary to use one of the study-rooms for an additional stack-room. The floor plans pre- sented on page twenty show the small space now available for library and study- rooms. This is especially unfortunate in an institution which subordinates inciden- tal amusements to the paramount interests of study. In every one of these particulars, the needs will be still greater in the future. The number of women students registerd each year follows: 1911-12, 24; 1912-13, 71; 1913-14, 105; 1914-15, 131. Not half of the women who have applied for admis- sion in these years have been admitted. Without additional accommodations the College will be obliged to decline many more who are worthy of its privileges. 24 REED COLLEGE: PLANS FOR DEVELOPMENT Proposed building for women. Second floor WHY SHOULD THESE YOUNG WOMEN ATTEND REED COLLEGE? There are two sufficient reasons why some young women wish to attend Reed College and no other. The first reason is geografical. The map on page twenty-two shows that Portland is more redily accessible than any other location in the Northwest. It is the center of population for a territory twice as large as all the New England States. It is now the home city of more than 35,000 girls, twenty-one years of age and under; and the population is increasing, according to the Federal census, at the rate of one hundred and twenty-seven per cent in a decade. When we add to all this the well-known educational advantages of residence during a college course in the only large city in this large territory, we see abundant reasons why increasing numbers of young women should decide to attend college in the City of Portland. 2S REED COLLEGE: ITS DOMINANT CHARACTERISTICS LOdGlft. ^ Proposed building for women. Third floor Second, and far more important, is the fact that there are many young women who evidently wish the advantages of this particular type of college. If this is what they want, they have no other choice, for Reed College is the only one in the country establisht and maintaind in accordance with the methods and ideals de- scribed above. CAN THESE NEEDS BE MET BY ONE BUILDING? All these needs are met in the plans which are here presented for a building for women. The plans are the result of years of study of the needs and accommo- dations of women at colleges in every part of the country. It appears that no more economical and permanently satisfactory plan could be devised. The proposed build- ing includes rooms for fifty women, a dining-hall large enough for these resident 26 REED COLLEGE: PLANS FOR DEVELOPMENT sin&leJ |t 51NQ1.E I- 5:1 X— o y SINGLt M ^ %r JO U£LL r;m lATH TOlttT ROO? OVIK. J)1N1NG R.OOM dnk=dnk=Jil BATH 6IN G LI oE Jt » JOUBLt Jt JOUBl -t «- M ilNGLE B X miy%L U SINOLl HALL BATH oTo ■SINGLfr * W .> i 6IHGU JIHGLl itM- SINOLt R.'M LOGCI/^ -XJL. m 3Ltt P I MG m I I II I III' m >« nil i-.ii-" 1* — " " 'V PO R.CH -»Jt lUL. iUt OVtN PoKCU V Proposed building for women. Fourth floor students and for all others, a gymnasium sufficient for all the women, supplemen- tary library and study-rooms, provisions for dramatic performances and a center of social life. IS THIS KUILDING A FITTING MEMORIAL? The essentials of a fitting memorial are beauty, permanence and high purpose. The beauty of the design is suggested by the sketches and by the fotografs here reproduced. All the buildings are to be in this style of architecture. The illustrations suggest the attractivness of the surroundings of the proposed building for women. Nothing short of an endowment fund for the College for Women could be a more permanent memorial than this building. The present structures are of steel, concrete, limestone and mission brick; they should last for untold generations. The new building for women should be equally durable. It will become an integral part of a group plan covering eighty-six acres of ground and designd to meet the needs of 27 REED COLLEGE: ITS DOMINANT CHARACTERISTICS a distant future. Few, if any, other buildings in the City of Portland are deliber- ately constructed for permanent use, regardless of the City's growth for a century to come. Furthermore, institutions of higher learning, establisht on large endowments which it is impossible to spend, have proved in the history of the world the most per- manent memorials. Such institutions outlive dynasties, governments, states, cities and religious sects. Possibly nothing is surer to survive the ravages of the Euro- pean war than the University of Louvain. Probably nothing in the entire Pacific Northwest, conceivd by man, is built on more lasting foundations than Reed College. It is, therefore, preeminently the place for a lasting memorial. No material structure could have a surer guarantee of permanence than the proposed first build- ing for the College for Women. The purpose of such a memorial would be to promote the highest physical, men- tal and moral development of generation after generation of the young women who will do much to determin the ultimate civilization of the Northwest. There could be no higher purpose. In beauty, in permanence and in purpose, this greatly - needed building is a fitting memorial. The comprehensiv plans for development of the grounds and buildings of the institution shown in the illustrations, provide a separate College for Women. The first building of this College is an imperativ and immediate necessity. There is now no dwelling hall for women, no dining-hall, no gymnasium, no separate athletic fields, no center of social life, no hall for dramatics, no adequate library or study- rooms. All of these needs will be met by the building, the plans for which are here set forth. Anyone who can help, directly or indirectly, in obtaining the funds nec- essary for this building is urged to communicate at once with the President or with the Trustees of Reed College. Gymnasium 28 . Reo. U.S.PatOtf. M17991 THE UNIVERSITY OF CAUFORNIA LIBRARY THIS BOOK IS DUE ON THE LAST DATE STAMPED BELOW AN INITIAL FINE OF 25 CENTS WILL BE ASSESSED FOR FAILURE TO RETURN THIS BOOK ON THE DATE DUE. THE PENALTY WILL INCREASE TO SO CENTS ON THE FOURTH DAY AND TO $1.00 ON THE SEVENTH DAY OVERDUE. DbU^O I : |1 T%k-\^m DEC 201940 ^^ ' ftjf^ 8> i o»^ 4 £W '946 RECD LD OCT 2 b '64 -6 PM DEC I >. < > i' l RECD CD Ar n i 3 1358 XApr'WU REC^P < ^^WfX^ LD 21-100m-7,'40(69368) ' ;^^mMi^m^^mm^