1911-1912 Academic Catalog

BUILDINGS. COLLEGE HALL. The erection of the new College building was begun in the Spring of 1895, and completed late in the Autumn of the same year. The comer-stone was laid with im– pressive services June 25, 1895, and the dedication took place during the meeting of the General Synod in May, 1896. The building stands in a campus of nine acres, containing about three hundred trees. It is a handsome edifice of pressed brick and cut stone. On the first floor are the chapel, the president's office, class rooms for music, German, history, mathematics, and men's waitipg room. On the second floor are the girls' waiting room, the Greek and Latin, psychology, science, English, French, economics and education recitation rooms and the physical and chemical laboratories. Two large society halls occupy the entire third floor. Two stairways, one on each side of the building, lead from the basement to the third story. The building is lighted with natural gas and electricity, and heated by furnaces. There are en– trances from each of the four sides. Standing in the center of the campus on the highest site in Cedarville, the building presents an attractive and imposing appear– ance. ALFORD MEMORIAL GYMNASIUM. During the holiday season of 1902, Mr. W . J. Al– ford presented to the College the church building and beautiful grounds, formerly the property of the Re– formed Presbyterian congregation, (General Synod). ,.