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was accepted and a building committee appointed con- sisting — in addition to Dr. Wallace — of Alexander Young, James G. Madden, Ivory Quinby, A. C. Harding, A. Y. Graham and J. A. Young. This new building was finished in May, 1863, costing $18,489.78, less, it is said, than the or ginal estima ' e. Monmouth College moved into this new home on May 12, and there remained until that fateful day last November. The building from which she moved was used for a number of years as an academy building. Later it housed a boarding club and became known in the student world as The Barracks. Still later it was converted into a soap factory. It was torn down in 1902. As originally built, the building of 1863 soon became too small. At a meeting of the Senate in |une, 1875, steps were taken towards its enlargement. A committee con- sisting of Prof. J. C. Hutchison, Chauncey Harding, and William Lafferty was appointed to take charge of this work. Uncer the supervision of this committee the work proceeded vigorously,, and at a cost of $14,220 the addition was finished and in use before the next June. Other buildings were added from time to time, the Presidents house in 1885, the Auditorium in 1897 and the Gymnasium in 1900. The old main building, however, re- mained the best loved of all the group It was the building that to generation after generation of students stood for Monmouth College As it lay a heap of blackened ruins on that November evening, wherever the news was carried to an old Monmouth stucent it brought a feeling of sadness. This sadness has been succeeded by determination. The cry from every quarter is Monmouth College must be better housed than ever before. It is toward this end students, faculty, trustees, alumni and friends are now bending their energies A new Carnegie library is up and since December last has been doing a main building ' s work. A heating-plant — long wishsd for - has also gone into commission. The foundation of a splendid new structure to be known as Wal- lace Hall has already been laid. McMichael Science Hall will be but a few months behind it, while a young ladies ' dormitory at no distant day will adorn Hanna Field, — the new part of the campus added through the beneficence of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Brereton in 1906. It is the hope, too, of all that the glory of this latter hou s e shall be greater than of the former. -10-
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The Day Of The Fire fl USPICIOUS of ihe great events that were to transpire that day. Nov. 14th. 1907 dawned chill and Fn dreary upon our little city It was to witness the destruction of the scene of Monmouth ' s first X fifty years of history with its changing vicissitudes and fortunes. The sun set that night over a scene of charred and blackened ruins, one part of Monmouth College; but its departing rays lit up the chapel where another part assembled in the evening hour, sorrowing but hopeful, sad but thankful for the past and determined for the future; assembled to hear the plans and announcement for the continuation of the work; for was not Monmouth College a spirit, the spirit of service and no more to be destroyed by the raging of the elements than the love in loyal hearts which flowed in on the close of that event- ful day in the form of telegrams, letters, and messages of condolence, hope and sympathy? At nine forty five that morning, the old bell which had rung in and out so many college generations, tolled its own knell; it rang in the last session to be held in the old main building and the halls resounded and grew quiet again with the noise of hurrying boys and girls. And then the flying footsteps — the alarm and the halls again filled with students this time leaving the building never to return; and then the struggle to retain only a few of the things which had proved dear — and then the warning cries, and the shouts and roaring flames and the crowd of faces —inquisitive, anxious, fearful, sorrowful — and then confusion, desolation and night. And only the odor of burned wood and hanging smoke remained assurance that all was not a horrid dream. —11—
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