by johnso24 | Aug 8, 2017 | St. Olaf College
Poetry of Place Jeff M. Sauve The valley of the stalwart pines beneath the college hill Away from all the campus stir—a place so quiet and still . . . So wrote St. Olaf College’s athletic coach, Ade Christenson, to his beloved in 1926. Others like him over the last...
by johnso24 | Aug 8, 2017 | Carleton College
Parish House Ben Weiss A wave of “general mourning” descended over Northfield at 7:20 p.m. on January 29, 1919. Everything in the city stopped. The movie theater closed. A basketball game between Carleton and St. Olaf was interrupted. Fred Burnett Hill, Carleton...
by johnso24 | Aug 8, 2017 | St. Olaf College
Para-Pillars Emily Hoar Jeff Barber’s “Para-Pillars” memorializes thirty years of St. Olaf’s Paracollege, which provided innovative, individualized, interdisciplinary learning. The sculptor, class of 1978, is himself an alumnus of the “college within a college”...
by johnso24 | Aug 7, 2017 | St. Olaf College
Original Baseball Diamond (1887-1889) Jeff M. Sauve From 1887 to 1889, the original baseball field, situated at the foot of the hill below Old Main on the southeast side, was far from ideal. A raised wooden sidewalk traversed the outfield for students to climb the...
by johnso24 | Aug 7, 2017 | Carleton College
Olin Hall Clifford Clark Designed by award-winning architect Minoru Yamasaki and completed in 1961 at a cost of $1.51 million, the Olin Hall of Science was designed to serve the college’s physics and biology departments. The building had two main entrances. The...
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