April 28, 2006

Art and College History, Written in Stone

By MICHAEL J. LEWIS

The history of higher education is written in prose and in poetry — in the prose of course catalogs and in the visual poetry of campus buildings. The prose version, however, can only speak of educational philosophy and content; when it comes to the actual life of a college, it is the buildings that tell the truth.

For the course catalog barely hints how large the admissions building and alumni-relations office now loom in the operations of a college. Or that the modern

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