Mercersburg Academy - Karux Yearbook (Mercersburg, PA)

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ElllllllllllllKIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIKK T h e K a r u X lllllflllllllllllllIlIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllx Z M CErn1nth nf this Amhvmg Equipment HEN Dr. Irvine became head master of the school in IS93 the entire school was housed, fed, and taught in'lVlain Hall, exclusive of the chapel wing which had not then been built. The campus consisted of four acres on which stood North and South Cottages and Main Hall. The Cottages were, during the first year, occupied by private families. For the second year the growth of the school demanded that South Cottage be taken over for school purposes and in I894 North Cottage be- came the residence of the head master. In the Summer of IS96 a wing was added to Main' Hall and two years later South Cottage was enlarged by the addition of the third story. During the first years of this period the eastern boundary of the academy property was a fence stretching north and south where the line of maples now stands, just east of Main Hall. Beyond this a large field stretched to what is now the avenue of white pines in front of the gymnasium. Half of this field, the western slope near Main Hall, was rent- ed as an athletic field. On this uneven slope lVlercersburg's first baseball and football heroes practiced and played their games, laying the foundations for the more famous contests to come. After a few years the entire field was purchased for an athletic field. The next addition to the academy property was the ten acres on which Keil Hall and Eighty-Eight Dormitory now stand. In May, IS99, the ground was broken for Keil Hall. During the summer of i900 Keil was finished and it was dedicated with a formal ceremony on October 26th. The dining room, so familiar to every student, is ranked by art critics as without a peer in the country. In the meanwhile the running track was being built. This was in the spring of l899, ancl during this period the 'Varsity nine played its games on what is now known as the second athletic field. In the fall of this same year the cage was built. The cage was a building thirty feet wide by eighty long, located at the foot of the hill in back of Main Hall. It was in this cage, with no other gymnasium for their use, that some of the most famous of Mercersburg's athletes were trained. With the comple- tion of the gymnasium thirteen years later, the cage was demolished. At commencement in l903, the completion of the tenth year of Dr. lrvine's ad- ministration was celebrated. In the presence of a large number of alumni and guests the ground for Eighty-Eight Dormitory was broken. R. P. McGrann, '94, now an officer of the Standard Oil Company in San Francisco, lifted the first shovelful of earth: and the second was lifted by President Woodrow Wilson, then President of Prince- ton University. On the previous evening President Wilson had delivered in Keil Hall, an oration on American Citizenship, which oration is still remembered as one of the finest ever delivered in the Cumberland Valley. Eighty-Eight Dormitory was completed the following March, at which time the I24 boys, who had been rooming in town because of lack of accomodations on the hill, were brought up to the campus. Previous to this two additions had been made to the academy grounds. These were the six acres now south of the Gymnasium, on which the new athletic field was completed in I9I 3: and the four acres north of this tract where the Gymnasium now stands. In l903, at the time of the building of Eighty-Eight, the 5 klllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIllIIIIllIHllIlIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllig, 1 9 1 8 xxlllllllllllllKlllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllIlIlIllIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIK Bm..