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7 i A portion of the new campus, left below, with a corner of Myers Hall at the lower right corner. Byerly behind it. Witmer Infirmary, center foreground, and the roof of Stine to Witmer's left. To the left of Byerly is the stadium fronting on the football field, and the baseball diamond farther left. That is the view to the east as a balloon rises over Ganser Library, its rainbow colors washed by the early morning sun. This page, very modern Ganser is contrasted with the old bridge across The Lake. Students today don't know that the bridge once rose high enough to permit ice skaters to glide from one end of the Lake to the other. On the title page, the Civil War Monument looks blue in the shade of the old trees; the battles that took the lives of students, staff and alumni are still read: Chickamauga, Appamattox. Bull Run—they seem quite distant. Below, one of the two fountains here and operable for nearly a century. Opposite page, the old library, that architectural gem. is awarded the place of honor in this seventy-fifth anniversary of the yearbook.
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Seventy-five years ago the seniors of Millersville State Normal School published a yearbook, establishing a tradition honored for three quarters of a century. The book was dedicated to Mr. J. P. Wickersham, teacher at the Normal, soldier, author, and was even named The Wickersham in his honor. We have tried. the editors wrote, to depict the character of the school by word and picture, to reflect credit upon our instructors who have guided us through our school days, and to present to the Alumni a souvenir by which they may be able to call to mind their many happy school days of yore. Not very different from the purpose of today's yearbooks. Those happy days were at a school founded in 1855. following a successful summer institute held the preceding year. The first and principal building, later to be called Old Main and since razed to make room for Ganser Library, contained dormitories (the sexes had wings at opposite ends of the building), a chapel, administrative offices, recitation rooms. and a model school. Other buildings extant in 1899 were the gym, which later students named the Rat Race and which is now Dutcher Hall, the library, and the Science Hall, which was to become the Industrial Arts Building and then be demolished to make way for Dilworth. The Wickersham terms this campus the most valuable Normal School property in the United States. It encompassed twenty acres, was beautifully planted as now with trees and flower beds, and boasted a lake used by merry skaters in winter, and in summer by the ladies for boating. It also had two fountains, which still stand and still function. The athletic field to the west held a baseball diamond and a football ground. Tennis courts lay to the northwest. Possibly the greatest difference between then and now. apart from size, lies in the calendar. The school calendar for the following year was published in The Wickersham in its entirety, possibly to attract new students. It starts with the remainder of the summer session: June 25—Sunday morning. Baccalaureate Sermon: June 27—Tuesday evening, Literary Exercises; June 28—Class Day Exercises and Alumni Meetings; June 29—Commencement Exercises. The winter session: August 28-Winter Session begins; December 22—Christmas Holidays begin; 1900, January 1—Christmas Holidays end (imagine returning to classes on New Year's Day!): January 26—Anniversary of the Normal Literary Society; March 15—Winter Session ends. Summer session: March 26—Sum- mer Session begins: May 25—Anniversary of Page Literary Society; June 24—Sunday morning. Baccalaurate Sermon; June 26—Tuesday evening. Oratorical Contests; June 27—Class Day Exercises and Alumni Meetings; June 28—Commencement Exercises. Total—a full ten months of classes. The senior curriculum for all consisted of History of Education. Solid Geometry, Teaching. Methods. Classics. Cicero, and Physics. The Wickersham staff advised the juniors: Immediately after classes. Cicero till 5:15; to library for book for Model School Lesson and book for debate; after supper copy Methods notes for the day and work on debate. Study period (evening) begin with History of Education—2Vi hours. Put two hours in in the evening, one-half hour before breakfast and again at 8 a.m. 9-9:45 (p.m.) study geometry—will have five theorems. Complete three, finish in the morning. Get up early, set clock for 3 to be at study by 3:15. Finish Geometry by 3:30. 3:30-4 write out lesson plan, neatly done in ink.
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