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<four the uad STORY 8Y JIM KELTY lllUSTlATION IY DEloRAH ZEMKE e very ym. thou>and> of people take the campus tours offered by MU's Visi1or Relations office. Every year, Francis Quadrangle is the highlight. ''The Quad is the oldest part of campus, the one with the most tradition. and it's beautifully landscaped," says Shirley Delbert. coordinator of Visitor Relations. "People love it." With this year marking the Quad's its history, read on. The tour moves JOOth anniversary, many alumni returning counter-clockwise. to campus may be inclined to give their own "quadtours·· to family and friends. I. Jesst Hall, the main administration building is named after George Clinton The north steps of Jesse Hall are a building, features an elongated dome and Swallow who was dean of agriculture and convenient place to begin the stroll, Corinthian-columned porticos. first state geologist of Missouri. preferably with some background The building was originally called information on the man for whom the six· Academic Hall and was constructed 3. The original tombstone from the grave acre parcel of greenery is named. after the University's main building - of Thomas Jefferson. a simple stone Gov. David R. Francis helped raise the also called Academic Hall - burned obelisk. was constructed from Jefferson's funds to reconstruct the University after down. It was renamed in 1922. own design. MU obtained the monument MU 's main building was destroyed by fire honoring former University President largely through the efforts of University in the 1890s. In addition to his labors on Richard H. Jesse, who oversaw the President Samuel S. Laws and Alexander behalf of higher education. Francis reconstruction of campus after the fire . F. Fleet, professor of Greek. Both men distinguished himself as governor by Jesse, who served from 1891 to 1908, were Vi rginians; Fleet was a graduate of reducing the state debt despite a lowering expanded MU's curriculum and the University of Virginia and a member of taxes during his administration. In 1916 assembled an outstanding faculty. of the 26th Virginia Regiment during the President Woodrow Wilson appointed West of the north steps of the building Civil War. Francis ambassador 10 Russia, in which is the grave marker of David Barton, MU is the first state university in the capacity he served during the turbulent Missouri's first United States senator. Louisiana Purchase territory, which years of World War I and the Russian Jefferson was instrumental in acquiring Revolution. On one occasion he held off a 2. Swallow Hall once held the geology in his first administration as president. Bolshevik mob at gunpoint on the steps of and geography departments. Today, the the American Embassy. Museum of Anthropology and the 4. The Residence on Francis For more infonnation on the Quad and anthropology department are here. The Quadrangle is the oldest building on 12 MI SSOU RI AL U MN US SPR I NG 1995 museum's collection is the third largest in 7. Walter Williams, Neff and Gannett residence.has been home to 12 University the state. The building is named for John halls are part of the School of Journalism, presidents and chancellors. Pickard, founder of the art his1ory and the world's first, founded in 1908. At one In April 1890 the Columbia Missouri archaeology departmem. A me1al sculpture time, a springhouse was located in this Herald reported "ghos1ly apparitions" by St. Louis artist Ernest Trova rests area of campus. Students could revive dancing in the windows of the upstairs outside the building. themselves between classes by stopping at bedrooms. The house, unoccupied at the springhouse for a drink of mineral the time. was placed under guard. 6. Sociology Building, the second-oldest water. The water, from Chalybeate Spring In 1883 University President Samuel classroom building on campus, was below, was supposed to have medicinal Laws bought from a private dealer a originally called the Law Building, but it properties. life-sized bronze statue of George was better known to students as 1he Law Walter Williams Hall was named for Washington and had it placed in front Barn. Law classes met there for 34 years. the founder and first dean of the J­ of the president's house. Laws hoped In that period. law students and School. In front of the bui lding is a the University would reimburse him. engineering students carried on a well­ stone from St. Paul's Cathedral in but this was never done. and in 1887 known feud. with fights between the two London. The stone was presented to the the statue was moved to Kansas City. groups breaking out several times each school by the British Empire Press year. Some law alumni bore scars from Union. S1. Paul's Cathedra1 looks down 5. Pickard Hall, originally called the these banles for the res1 of their lives. The upon the birthplace of English Chemical Building, houses the Museum of annual anacks by 1he engineers were literature, the English newspaper press Art and Archaeology and the Department hindered by the Jaw dean's secretary, who and the English publishing business. of Art History and Archaeology. The developed frigh tening accuracy with Neff Hall was named for Kansas City SPR I NG 1995 M IS S 0 U R I A L UM N US 13 Mayor Jay H. Neff, who founded McAlester Park. Students renamed it in water from Lake St. Mary, a small pond several agricultural publications. His 1971 in memory of four student where the School of Journalism now son, Ward, BJ '13, provided funds for demonstra1ors at Kent State University stands. Stu<lents and facul!y dashed into construction and was the firs! alumnus who were killed by National Guardsmen. the building to rescue books, furniture to finance a building. A large peace sign (from 1he Vietnam War and pnintings. They also carried out The two stone lions that srnnd in the era). constructed from rocks. is located in mounted specimens from the n:itural archway between Neff and Wal!e1 the northeast corner of the park. history museum and set them on the Williams Hall once guarded a In the spring of 1970. the U.S. invasion snow-covered ground. ''The beasts and Confucian temple in Nanking, China. of Cambodia and the violence at Kent reptiles looked particularly lifeli ke and They were given to the school by the State triggered anti-war rallies on savage in the fl ickering glare from the Chinese government in 193 1 as an act campus attended by thousands of building," a student recalled later of internaiional good will. The figures students. Al one rally on Francis When the fire reached a second-floor were sculpted by an unknown artist Quadrangle, police arrested dozens of armory, 14,000 rounds of stored around 1400, al the beginning of the protesters, who were later released. ammunition exploded. Onlookers Ming dynasty. ducked behind stuffed animals and trees The Neff Annex houses the Columbia IO. Geologicul Sciences Buildingo is ne during the outburst. Mi.tS011rfr111, the citywide teaching of the newer structures 011 the Quad. In its newspaper, and KB IA, MU's National corridors are exhibits from a collection of 13. T he engineering complex, which Public Radio affiliate. more than 100,000 foss ils, minerals and includes two of the Quadrnngle's original The newest building of the complex, rock specimens. buildi ngs. houses a major part of the and on the Quadrangle. is G:innett Hall, College or E11 gineeri11g. constructed with funding from the 11. Switzlcr Hall, originall y called A patio on 1hc north side of the Gannelt Found:ition. Scientific Hall, is the oldest classroom complex features a memorial bench building on campus. It is named for Col. dedicated to the engineering students 8. !\·lemorial G ateway, ai Elm and Eighth WilJiam Switzlcr, a 19th-century who died in the two world wars. streets, marks the north entrance 10 the Columbi:i newspaperman and member of In front or the complex is a statue of the Quadrangle. In 191 S MU was awarded the Board of Curators. bem of Tau Beta Pi. a symbol of the several thousand dollars from the United The bell in the building's lrn lianate outstanding engineers of the l"uturc. Tau States government for damages incurred cupola once rang for classes. During Beta Pi is the honorary engineering during the Civil War when Union troops that era, generations of students made fraternity on campus. c:unped on University grounds, set up the moonlit trek up the rickety ladder, In l 883 a dynamo presented 10 the headquaners in the president's house and onto the roof and inside the belfry to University by Thomas Edison was used used Academ ic Hall as a storehouse and ''liberate" the bel l's clapper, in hopes of for a demonstration of the first military prison. The University used the postponing classes. incandescent lighting west of the money for construction of the gateway. Upon request and with the approval of Mississippi River. Experiments with the The gateway bears bronze bas reliefs of the chancellor's office, the Switzler bell dynamo led to the establishment of an James S. Rollins, "Father of the tolls when alumni or members of the electrical engineering department. one University," and John H . Lathrop. fi rst campus communi ty pass away. of the first in the nation. president of the University. The School of Journalism nrndc its first Around the turn of the century, A plaque on 1he east pillar quotes home in Switzler Hall. Switzler now engineering students began holding Cicero: "What greater gift or better can houses the Office of Women Studies annual St.

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