Bethany College - Bethanian Yearbook (Bethany, WV)

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H X n o O 5 o Pa e Twelve

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The latest gift of this munificent friend of Bethany is the handsome new Hall of Agriculture, rising at the northern end of the college building. It occu- pies the site of the wing destroyed some years ago by fire. The spacious Oxford window of painted Gothic above the main portals of the building rivalls in symmetry and proportion those of European colleges. This, with the fine castel- lated tower which so nobly completes the dignity of the whole, sends one ' s thoughts dreaming of Old World legends in stone and story. It is to such legacies as this that Bethany is indebted for the charm of her name. Our state institutions far and near have rich and costly structures reared at the expense of the body politic, and their material equipment is surpassingly adequate for the purposes of intellectual training. In Bethany the affections of men have slowly grown with the growth of the trees, with the slow lapse of years. What Bethany has today of worth is the gift of hearts that love her, loyal sons who have held her in reverence, and, after years of success in the marts of busi- ness, have returned to honor her with their substance. We have here also gifts that speak not only of the sunshine of prosperity but also of sorrow — votive gifts to those who come no more. Such are the gifts of men like Thomas W. Phillips and jM. M. Cochran. In these Bethany has an inheritance rich beyond the cost of brick and stone and sculptured shield. Here sentiment, like a frail Daphan- ous robe ' throws its tender grace over all things — over the college, over the entire little valley, couching in the embrace of the hills to the soft inland murmur of waters. In the clear pools of her little river, great men of the Restoration have been buried in Christian baptism ; in the folded hills lie the ashes of her dead. The holiest affections of the human heart have sung themselves into the very walls of each rising structure. All these things lend an indefinable charm and will ever give to old Bethany the sanctity of a shrine. Page Eleven

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