1956-1957 Academic Catalog

, General Inf01-m.ation On Saturday, April 4, 1953, the Trustees of the Baptist B ible Institute of Cleveland met with the Trustees of Cedarville College. By a process of r esignat ions and elections, the owner– ship and control of Cedarville College passed completely into the hands of the Trustees of Baptist Bible Institute. With the vision and purpose of having a true, fundamental, Baptist liber– al arts college along with the continuance of a greater Bible In– stitu te, the Trustees immediately changed the name of the new institu t ion to Cedarville Baptist College and Bible Institute. However, in the fall of 1954 the Trustees of Cedarville Baptist College met and voted to discontinue the Bible Institute program and t o concentrate on the work of a liberal arts col– lege. The name was then changed to r ead: Cedarville College– A Baptist College of Liberal Arts. F ACILITIF:S CAMPUS. Cedarville College lies within the village limits of Cedar– ville, Ohio. The campus itself is extensive. The baseball dia– mond lies on its southern edge and just west of the Dining Hall. The Girls' Donnitory is situated within a few feet of its north– ern boundary. Th e south east corner of the campus is richly wooded with deciduous trees: maples, a buckeye, a linden , and evergreens. The drive is lined with maples and the forrnal walk bordered with arbor vitae; a group of spruce t1"ees stands befor e the Science Hall and in th e open meadow to the west . Solitary maples, ash, and elm here and ther e spread wide branches in full sun. These trees, the chief beauty of th e campus, wer e the gift of the late Whitelaw Reid, an American journalist and diplo– mat of the nineteenth century. LLE HALL. ' 'Old Main,' ' built in 1895, is the original college building. It has the spaciousness of a bygone day when building costs wer low 1· , but it has been cornpl tely modernized and r wired; fluo– . sc nt lighting l1as be n installe<]. On its first floor ar the Ad– ministrativ offices; on the s cond floor ar classrooms. 15