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29
Jul
2015

Auctoritas, Gravitas, Humanitas, Veritas




A month or so ago, I took a trip down to Texas State University to see the 24th Texas Photographic Society International Exhibition which was hanging in the Wittliff Collections gallery there. It’s been a while since I visited Texas State and it’s grown enormously since I last walked around the campus. Here’s a large arch on one of the main buildings with the school motto inscribed over it. My basic Latin and some Googling suggest that this means “Authority, Gravity, Humanity, Truth”. You can read more about it here, though.

For the technically inclined...

  • Aperture: ƒ/8
  • Camera: X20
  • Focal length: 7.1mm
  • ISO: 100
  • Shutter speed: 1/300s


Tagged - academic, arch, Architecture, auctoritas, building, gravitas, humanitas, Monochrome, texas, Texas State, university, veritas


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Buildings Building TXST | Natalie Foster
November 14, 2019, 1:56 pm

[…] In my previous blog post, I spoke about the most iconic and well known/observed arch on campus, the Undergraduate Academic Center (UAC) Arch. Texas State’s original buildings were gothic style buildings (Old Main) and some were Spanish […]

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