Hillsdale: Tower of the Guard against the Dark Towers of Deconstructionism

Hillsdale College remains one of the last great bulwarks of Western Christian learning to stem the tide of Deconstructionism. Giving undergraduates a respect for Western heritage, Hillsdale has helped raise a generation of leaders actively building Christian civilization, some of whom, I have had the honor to work alongside. Although I have many friends from Hillsdale, I never visited the campus until the week before last. I attended their two-hour performance of Handel's Messiah, fellowshiped with freinds, and inspected the library and campus as a whole. Magnificent! I did not take as many pictures as a should have, but I have substituted some pictures I found on the Internet to fill in the gaps...

Here's the neo-Classical Central Hall:

 http://www.robertpence.com/mi_hillsdale/mi_hillsdale.html

 http://tyforquer.tumblr.com/

http://collegeprofiles.com/hillsdale.html

Here's more like what it looked to me, having visited in winter, no snow though.

 There's a half-true joke on campus that Hillsdale boasts more statues to its student body ratio than any other college. One of them is a statue of a Civil War soldier (Hillsdale sent more soldiers to the war than any other college in America except West Point. Below the pedestal, Abraham bows in humbled respect for their service. Wonderful symbolism.

http://www.robertpence.com/mi_hillsdale/mi_hillsdale.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hillsdale_Lincoln.JPG

George Washington standing with honor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hillsdale_Washington.JPG

 Thomas Jefferson contemplating liberty or knowledge

http://www.hillsdalesites.org/Galleries/campusphotogallery/thomasjeffersonbyprofessoranthonyfrudakis.html

Ronald Reagan with eternal optimism:

http://www.hillsdale.edu/admissions/news/news_story.asp?iNewsID=2925&strBack=/Default.asp

Margarate Thatcher, seated authoritatively

http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2010/01/can-conservatives-make-art/

Here is the beautiful campus church that we saw the Messiah in:

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM1M4E

http://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=02c43d93-807e-4875-97f0-d0b33e7c991a

http://lifelightimage.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/eric-cortney/

My favorite statue on campus: Winston Churchill in the Student Union Building, slightly stooped as if the "survival of Christian Civilization" rests on his shoulders:

The Heritage Room in the library, my favorite room on campus: