THE LITERARY 





OF THE LINN^AN ASSOCIATION OF PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE. 



VoL'. III. MAY, 1847. No. 7. 



PE>fNSYLV^\JNiIA COLLEGE. 



We are indebted to the politeness of D. A. Buehler, A. M., Editor 

 of the Gettysburg Star, for the cut of the College edifice which we have 

 placed on the opposite page. The impression is regarded as a correct 

 one, except that the small building on the eastern end of the College 

 has not yet been erected — the one on the western side is the LinncBan 

 Hall, the corner-stone of which was laid last Summer by the Hon. James 

 Cooper. 



The College edifice is a chaste specimen of the Doric order of archi- 

 tecture, consistingof a centre buildingand two wings, with end projections. 

 The whole length is 150 feet. The building is four stories high, with 

 blocking course two and a half feet high, resting upon a heavy cornice 

 around the entire building. On the centre is placed an octagonal cupola 

 18s feet in diameter and 24 feet high, with an observatory on its top. 

 The entire front of the centre buikhng (46 feet) is occupied by a portico 

 consisting of four fluted columns four feet in diameter at their bases, and 

 22^ feet high, resting on abutments brought up to a level with the floor 

 of the second story. On these columns rests an appropriate entablature, 

 together with the roof, cornice and blocking course of the centre building. 

 The portico projects 14 feet from the centre building, and is made acces- 

 sible on the outside by a flight of steps equal in width to its whole front. 

 The edifice is composed of brick, and the whole exterior is painted white. 

 The building, besides a hall of 1 1 feet width from front to rear in the 

 centre building on the second floor, and corridors on every floor, the 

 entire length of the building, contains seventy-five apartments or rooms, 

 fifty-four of which are designed for the use of students — the remainder 

 are a College Hall (42 by 22 feet,) and a Library of the same size, two 

 rooms for the Literary Societies, each 43 by 19, on the fourth story, six 

 Recitation rooms, Refectory, together with the necessary apartments for 

 the Steward and family. 

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