Marshall University - Chief Justice Yearbook (Huntington, WV)

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Tfocoi @ould 'poiCocv t e @cvieen, t at 'Zfacl Seen 'Planted fa 1 te.., In the fall of 1868 twenty-seven students came to me. How glad I was to have them; how proud of my truly scholarly program—spelling, reading, penmanship, grammar; bookkeeping, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, surveying; geography, botany, natural philosophy, anatomy, physi ology, and the art of teaching. My poor president had to be able to teach all these courses. I don’t think my students today would like the demerit system 1 used then, nor the long daily six hours of classes, liven so, in the spring, I had nineiv-six students. 7he model school adyturn• from completed Old Aidin' in Chic it the only word for description, hut in So years. !l)07. The mu coaches {hod) by hither) mean the children. we'll he just at antiquated.

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 1 TV€14 Redeemed 6-y a 'Hecv State cutd Utade t e 'Tfawiat ScAaaC, , , Once more, history moved in a way one could hardly have foreseen. The issues of the Civil War brought forth in 1863 a new state out of the old Commonwealth of Virginia—West Virginia— and I was in West Virginia. In 1867, three years after I was auctioned, the new state redeemed me, bought twelve additional acres of land, added a third story to my original four-room building. Looking north from uhere the Student Union nou Hands, Old Main n seen at it looked in the I890's. A middle finished my wing built in 1856, built another three-story brick wing with a tower, furnished me throughout, and made me the State Normal School. One can easily imagine the great joy and gratitude with which I received this news. Now, at last, I could follow the career that my founding fathers had planned for me. section was built in 1899. which together with the two older buildings nude one long structure.

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 TOaa. “Built Irouud 7ite . . . IJu Pbyties lah was fully tauipped in the 1920's. f H after A ortbcott u ,n (onsirueted. In 1871, .in old wish came true. The city of Huntington was founded and began to grow up around me. Now 1 wanted nothing more than to be a real college. As the country grew, so did the state, and as the state grew, so did the city, and I continued to grow with it all. In 1895, a great new sixty-foot square, three-story brick building with a high tower was set well out to my front. Its silhouette against the sky was a landmark. In addition I had yet another wing added to my first buildings and numerous improvements everywhere. Four years later the space between my first buildings and the new one was closed with another fine new building. Throughout the length of these joined buildings ran a hall 303 feet long. luu b spring the campus was filled Kill) gay pageantry as thi Vnqutncbed lord) offered a pleasant exit to the gr,id at Mg senior,. Ibis prastiee was eon tinned until the late thirties.