Western Maryland College - Aloha Yearbook (Westminster, MD)

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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

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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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The original building with all its wings, the gymnasium, the president's house, the Alumni Hall and other buildings on the premises are lighted wi-th electricity from a plant owned by the College and situated in the boiler-house, from which the buildings are also heated by steam. In addition to the property above mentioned in this sketch, the trustees own four houses in front of the main building on College Avenue, occupied by the baker, the watchman, the fireman and the launclryman, who are thus situated so as to furnish constant and faithful service. y INTERIOR OF LABORATORY. The fact that a number of young men the present year have been compelled to seek rooms in the Theological Seminary, for lack of accommodations in the College, indicates that additional space will have to be providedg and so the present summer will be likely to find the mechanics engaged in their accustomed work of adding to. Let the good work go on! The successive architectural enlargements are only the counterpart of inner'life, growth and development, ' n ffl ,