1952-1953 Academic Catalog

8 CEDARVILLE COLLEGE its students achieve in their years of study not only book knowledge, but enrichment and release of personality, and courage, faith and a positive approach to the unforeseeable contingencies of the present and the future. FACILITIES Campus. Cedarville College lies within the limits of the village of Cedarville. The campus itself is extensive, part of it the gift of friends like the late W. J. Alford, Sr. On its southern edge, west of the Recre, ation Hall, is the baseball diamond, and close to the northern limit, the football field. The southeast corner of the campus is richly wooded with deciduous trees: maples, a buckeye, a linden, and with evergreens. The drive is lined with maples and the formal walk bordered with arbor vitae; a group of spruce trees stands before the Science Hall and in the open meadow to the west, and solitary maples, ash and elm here and there spread wide branches in full sun. These trees, the chief beauty of the campus, were the gift of the late Whitelaw Reid, who never forgot that Cedarville was ··home". College Hall. ·'Old Main", built in 1895, is the oldest and the or– iginal college building. It has the spaciousness of a bygone day, when building costs were lower, but it has been completely modernized and rewired, and fluorescent lighting has been installed. On its first floor are the administrative offices and an assembly room; on the second and third floors are classrooms. Science Hall. Erected in 1922, Science Hall contains facilities for the physical sciences: classrooms and the chemical and physical labora, tories; other classrooms and the workroom of the art-education classes. Biological Laboratories. The new science building, materials for which were given to the college by the government, was put up by the student themselves, except for the electrical wiring, the installation of the furnace, and the roofing. The purpose of the gift was to provide storage for the surplus radio and electronic equipment, provided by the government for the use of the Physics Department. The building is large enough to house also the Biology Department: a large classroom with modem equipment, begin, ning and advanced laboratory rooms, and the department office. The laboratories are furnished with the latest equipment, including ample pre, served and demonstration materials, visual aids such as charts and models, adequate miscroscopic apparatus with complete slide series for the cur, riculum offered, sufficient reagents, and facilities for living plants and animals. Alford Memorial Gymnasium. The gymnasium was presented to the college by W. J. Alford in memory of his father and mother, Dr. and ·Mrs. John Alford of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. The building itself is