As the fall semester gets underway, Leah Hager Cohen, the James N. and Sarah L. O’Reilly Barrett Professor in Creative Writing, settles her students onto a shady spot of grass in the Stein Hall courtyard. She, like many Holy Cross professors, takes advantage of the warm August weather and Holy Cross’ beautiful campus to kick off the semester!
Photo by Tom Rettig
Grounds workers take advantage of a sunny day early in the spring season.
Brendon Connor works in the College’s greenhouse. About 2,800 pots of pansies are currently being planted across campus.
Adrian Xibri plants pansies in front of O’Kane Hall.
Photos by Tom Rettig
Warmer weather at Holy Cross means lunch on the Hogan Courtyard, studying in the Adirondack chairs on Fenwick Lawn … and lounging in a personal hammock.
Photograph by Tom Rettig
The morning sun brings brilliant skies over the Holy Cross campus.
Photograph by John Cannon
Much of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island were under a weather watch as tornados, hail, heavy rains and strong winds were in the forecast. After rain fell on campus the summer skies turned gold during a cloudy sunset.
Photo by Tobias Conio
William J. St. Germain, laborer for the Holy Cross Grounds Department, checks on pansies growing in the on-campus greenhouse. Over the course of each growing season around 15,000 plants are grown in the greenhouse. Currently about 5,550 pansies await spring’s warmer weather.
Photo by Tom Rettig
From left, Lorenzo Vicente ’18 and Kelman Ramirez ’18 walk past bulbs sprouting outside of the Hogan Campus Center during today’s spring-like weather.
Photo by Tom Rettig
Student passes by the O’Kane clock tower overlooking surrounding Worcester on a winter afternoon.
Photo by John Cannon
A student walks past the Rodin sculptures outside Beaven Hall on a snowy winter’s day.
Photo by Tom Rettig
Photograph by John Cannon