1923-1924 Academic Catalog

HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE Cedarville College has a productive endowment of $141,743.85. In 1913 the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Phila– delphia was removed to Cedarville and affiliated with the college. This institution has an, endowment fund of $36,445 and a students' aid fund of $38,953.48. The College and Seminary combined have endowments totaling $217,152 .33. At the present time a campaign is on to raise $200,000 for new buildings and additional endowment funds . At the present date, October 8, 1921, the sum of $136,000 has been ;raised towards t his goal in cash and pledges, leaving a balance of $64,000 yet to be raised. The outlook for the future of the College is bright. We appeal to alumni and friends to join with u s in making the coming years, by our contributions, prayers and efforts, the best yet. PURPOSE OF TBE COLLEGE The purpose of Cedarville College i:;: to secure a high modern form of literary and scientific education under careful supervision and Christian influences, without restriction of personal opinion, and with open door and equal privileges to both sexes and to all classes and conditions of men . LOCATION Cedarville College is situated in Cedarville, Greene County, Ohio, which is located on the Little Miami Division of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. l-,ouis Railway, .forty-seven I)1iles southwest of Columbus; seven'ty-three mil~s northeast of I Cincinnati; twelve miles south of Springfield; and eight miles northeast of Xenia. It is in the northern part of the Miami Valley, and has one of the most beautiful and healthful locations iri Ohio. The country lying about Cedarville is level, fertile, improved, and in every way suited for a pleasant residence. Any· who have children to educate, and wish to be with them during their college course, can find no finer reg'ion and no better society than in this community. BlliLrnNGSAND~QUWMENT ~OLLEGE HALL College Hall is the main building of the institution. It is a handsome edifice of pressed brick and cut stone. On the first floor are the chapel, class ropms a-µd waitir;ig rooms. On the second floor are recitation rooms and the chemical and biological labor-atories. Two large literary ,society halls occupy the entire third floor. Stand– ing in the center of the beautiful campu~, on the highest site in Cedarville, the building presents an attractive and imposing appear– ance. THE ALfORD ~EMORIAL GYM,NASIUM In 1902, Mr. W. J, Alford presented to the College the churc'h building, formerly the property of the Reformed Presbyterian con– gregation (General Synod). This building given by the d-onor as a memorial to his pa1;\'lnts, the late Re.v. John ,Alford, D. D., and Mrs. Mary B. Alford, has been named the "Alford Memorial Gym– nasium." It is seventy feet long and fifty feet wide, provided with dressing rooms and shower baths, and furnishes an excellent place for a gymnasium. PAGE SEVEN 1