By Robert Oliver Mellown
In 1988 the collage of Alabama Press released Robert Oliver Mellown’s The college of Alabama: A consultant to the Campus, a fruits of a decade’s worthy of study into either the evidence and the legends surrounding the structure, heritage, and traditions of the Capstone.
Over 20 years later, this new consultant brings to mild the various additions, expansions, and renovations the college has passed through on its spacious grounds in Tuscaloosa. as well as up-to-date sections dedicated to the university’s old landmarks—such as Foster Auditorium, the place “the stand within the schoolhouse door” happened; Denny Chimes,where the handprints and footprints of recognized Tide athletes are memorialized in concrete; and the Gorgas condominium, which with stood the destruction of Union troops on the finish of the Civil War—new sections account for the purchase of Bryce Hospital’s campus, the expansions at Bryant-Denny Stadium to house the transforming into purple Tide fan base, and the burgeoning scholar game amenities, enjoying fields, and home communities.
Chapters are prepared into numerous campus excursions for strolling or driving—Antebellum, Victorian, Early Twentieth-Century, East Quad, West Quad, technological know-how and Engineering hall, scholar lifestyles, Bryce, clinical, Southeast, Athletics, and rancid Campus. Alumni, potential scholars and their mom and dad, new school, out-of-state viewers, and overseas dignitaries will all welcome this helpful, compact, and colourful advisor to at least one of the main appealing campuses within the country.
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