Marshall University - Chief Justice Yearbook (Huntington, WV)

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A jar (t) from today's modern look—but these tutilities still persist. I be Hand, the old Blue and Blaek” baseball team, chemical experiments, and the Marshall military unit all at the turn of the century. 'D xa% Weie @l Med Td wt Sfilit t e @OMKtwf . • . I suppose the first faint tremors of the war that nearly split the country were reaching me. At any rate, in 1X59, 1 twice just escaped being sold for debts! Next year, my president resigned because the trustees who were my guardians could not raise funds to pay his salary. My next two presidents served a short time hut the last resigned to join the Union Army. My doors were closed. I cannot say that I was not hurt. I was glad to be of service as a hospital during the Civil War, but I had been so proud to lx Marshall College. As the war drew towards its,close. I hoped that somehow 1 might be restored to my former dignity. But what seemed the end was close and my faint hope short-lived. In 1804, shortly before the end of the war, I was sold .at a public auction for $1 500. The family that bought me moves! in. servants and all. They were 4 J nice enough people, and two of the sisters taught school, but I was far from my former proud position. I low could I ever be a college again? 7

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hi 1867, three years tifler being auctioned, the new ita e added Marshall was now the State Sonnal Si bool in a new state a three story budding and tower to the original structures. created out of the issues of the U ar. 7tt t%43 7 747driven 7 tcf TZciiCcUtty . , , The next eighteen years were a quiet time of steady pace for me. I didn’t know that my work was being watched. Consequently, 1 was completely surprised when my guardians presented me with a large, fine, three-story brick wing. True, because money was scarce, only the first floor was furnished and that as a chapel and church—nevertheless. I was growing again. I had come lar and knew that 1 was rather an imposing sight in the midst of the surrounding farmlands. Yes, 1 had come far but 1 little dreamed of the great honor which in two short years befell me. In 18 58, the General Assembly of Virginia made me a COLLEGE! Imagine, from a log cabin to a college in twenty years. Honor beyond belief and yet 1 regret to say I was not completely satisfied—not quite. I wanted a city around me as other colleges had. That year I had a faculty of four, and twenty students. One can see, looking back, that I had attained dignity and authority, hut these, alas, could not save me from the hard times that followed. 6

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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.