Western Maryland College - Aloha Yearbook (Westminster, MD)

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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 ,

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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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and both together furnish proof of the increasing usefulness of the College. Causes and processes lie hidden from the public gaze, but building and other material etpiipments strike the eyes of all observers. .lint XYestern Maryland College points with pride to her educated sons and daughters as the most enduring proof of her merit. and of her right to seek public patronage. Over four hundred grarluated students stand as monuments of the fostering care and of the faithful service of this lnstitution. NVherever these INTERIOR OF LIB RARY. make history in the various lines of business or in the learned professions, VVest- ern Maryland College is making history. ' Success may or may not be the criterion of merit, and rank conferred by Act of Parliament may be doubted, but among all peoples and at all times. the Workman is known by his work. The College, whose history I have briefly sketched, stands on its own merit and asks to be judged simply by its own Work. 33