Bethany College - Bethanian Yearbook (Bethany, WV)

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OGLEBAY GATES — The main entrance to the college has always centered around the gates and the pillars add a dignity to the hillside. Freshmen in the past became acquainted with this entrance early in the year, during Hazing, they were forbidden to walk down the steps or through the archways. The seniors would hold their annual step sing there, also. Adding to tradition, the gates were opened when final examinations were being given on the hill. This was supposed to let the ponies through. They were closed at all other times. LOOKING BACK 7

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Men, and not hrick and mortar, make colleges, and these colleges make ft men. Alexander Camphell Just over hillside and around the next bend is Bethany. Over the years Bethany has come to mean many different things. After making a critical study of the academic program at Bethany, a prominent educator, in 1939, declared: Here is a small college of unusual distinction and merit. Comments like that have come from various persons who have come to know Old Bethany. - - - • t« » ■ ' Ai: »-.- : -m; vH -Ma- ? 6 LOOKING BACK

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PENDLETON HEIGHTS — In 1841 William Pendleton built the house on the Hill to serve as a home for future presidents. Bethany has a heritage deep and rich with meaning. It is old mixing new — generations passing in between. It is exams and cramming and homework, the Gates and the President ' s home on the hill. It is friends, football games and dances, classes graduating and the memories they take with them. It is all this and more. An Old Main where hundreds have walked, a Tower sticking up high enough to be seen for miles around, a town and 140 years of tradition. It is all this . . . The Falls of Bethany, somewhere in the woods behind the Heights. 8 LOOKING BACK