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Late Spring, 1970 /Late Summer, 2012

What makes a place feel like a center of the campus?  Is it a physical center or an emotional or psychological center?  Is it a place where something happened?  Something good? Or a place that holds a disturbing memory of some kind? How, or where, can we approach our mind’s psychic centers and edges through the confines of physical space?

I was a sophomore at Bryn Mawr in 1970, 42 years ago. Yet now as I wander around, I discover I am drawn toward several places in particular – two are near the campus’s physical center.   Taylor’s high tower marks a center of campus.  All the “English” literature and most language classes were once held here.