Western Maryland College - Aloha Yearbook (Westminster, MD)

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ing that twenty-six additional free scholarships be given to students to be educated in this institution. Likewise in 1898 a very handsome arch of marble and limestone was built between the president's house and the residence of Prof. Simpson. This beautiful structure ,which-spans the main drive as you enter the campus is a monument tothe memory of the hrst president, Dr. Ward, and it is a gift of his niece, Mrs. Hurley, of Wasliington city. '. .For several years pasta fundshas been steadily increasing, and all the While we could almost fancy we heard' the sound of the workman's hammer as he x 'fel 1 - lf, 'Ziff ..! , ,LJ Mg X ,, N ,M 4, if is A fb . .' ' 'fl fu , , 4, 4 5,-.Lf ,'aBf2V'2Qg' . i ' .23 1'-jig., . 5: 5 w M L-I Jffaffw QV GYMNASIUM. shaped' the stones for their place in the building to which the eye of faith has been looking with anxious expectation-the longed for, the dreamed of, but now the most handsomely finished Alumni Hall. Yes, it has appeared in all its stately magnificence, a thing of beauty and a joy to every friend of Western Maryland College. This glorious realization, by far the handsomest addition to College Hill, occupies a very conspicuous site on the premises, the corner of College Avenue and Main Street. Besides Society Halls, Committee Rooms and a hand- 30

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Thus it appears that while the original, the central plant, stood for some time with uncertain life, yet within the last few years, it has displayed evident signs of extraordinary vitality in growing into symmetrical beauty by adding in succession Uwings' Hall, Smith Hall, Hering Hall and Ward Hall, and acquiring a frontage ol 273 feet with the main entrance greatly improved by a tower and by a portico running the entire length. September, 1896. saw the commencement of another building on the fr- PROF. MCDA NIE IJS RFJSTDENCE. campus, which not long after its completion proved its raison d,Cfl'L',' for here the Professor of Mathematics, weary of a long bachelorhood, set up his larcs cz' pezzatrs, and first began to learn that life is really worth the livingfl A striking proof of the progress the College has made during the past decade, and a certain indication of the strong hold it has on the publicconlidence during the present administration was the Act of the Maryland Legislature, 1898, direct- 29

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somely ornanicntcd .llanquet llall, all of which are on the first tloor, there is on the second and third stories a superb auditorium with a seating capacity of about one thousand four hundred, and the whole interior finished with beautifully designed plaster of paris decorations. The great need of this building has been felt for a long time. The constantly growing popularity of the school and the increasing number in attendance at each succeeding connnenccinent, have taxed the ingenuity of the lfaculty to so distribute thc seats as to give the greatest INTERIOR OF GYMNASIUM. . satisfaction and secure the best results. The new Alumni Hall, which is to be dedicated in June of the present year, 1899, will relieve the Faculty of this anxiety, as in the future all who may desire to witness the closing exercises can get good and comfortable seats. Also the Senior Class of ,QQ are to be congratu- lated as being the first to deliver their essays and orations and to receive their diplomas under the pleasing surroundings of this beautiful room. The Alumni Hall marks another milestone in the progress of Western Maryland College. 31