Washburn University - Kaw Yearbook (Topeka, KS)

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old Lincoln college building, and the amount from this sale added to that already collected, provided enough to start the Hrst building. Plans were made for laying out the campus, and by 1874 old Rice Hall, the sci- ence building, was ready for use. In Rice hall were a boy's dormitory, girls' dormi- tory, 'faculty ofhces, a library, a chapel, and class rooms. So all the school's facilities were to be found housed under one roof. Financial drives are no new thing for VVashburn, for they encountered monetary ditliculties early in the game. In 1877, funds totalled only Sl545,000g enrollment was only fifteen students at the time. In 1879. Professor Stearns succeeding in rais- ing 563.000 at I-lartford, Conn., so that a separate dormitory for girls might be built. By 1890, X'Vashburn had embarked on a period of expansion. South Cottage was built in the eighties, XfVhittin Hall was in use in 1883, and Holbrook Hall, now the administration building, was open in 1886. Boswell Hall, which now houses the Law school, became the library in the same year. Professor L. D. XVhittemore, former registrar, was the librarian at that time. College officials erected the MacVicar chapel four years later and some thought was turned toward landscaping the spa- cious 160-acre campus. The schoolis endowment fund topped the fl-3100,000 mark, when a tract of land north of the college was sold and divided up into building lots. Dr. MacVicar, who had contributed so much to the college in his work, was suc- ceeded by George M. Herrick in 1895 as president. 1Vashburn continued to forge ahead and her development was as rapid as before. The Reverend Norman Plass succeeded Herrick, During the new administration the observatory, the president's home, the heating plant, and Carnegie library were built. XfV1'ICl1 Reverend Plass resigned in 1908, Dr. Frank Knight Sanders, former dean at Yale, became the new president. Dr. Par- ley P. VVomer assumed the executive chair upon Sanders' resignation, to serve until Dr. Philip C. King came to take the otfice in 1931. The college can well be proud of our present executives record, for he has put his heart in his work to make 1Vash- burn the finest college he has known how. Democratic in spirit, he has tried to bring about a closer relationship between admin- istration and students. He has sought student advice and given them a chance to suggest ways to improve their school. XV ith 75 years of progress just past, sons and daughters of Ichabod can look forward to a greater and better NVashburn in years to come. . DAYS L-ONL BX

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