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Dedicati on ceremony at Homecoming Finishing touches for the plaster used to blossom on each of the four corner spires. At- tempts to smoke out chapel services by stuffing the chimney with hay were thwarted by the installation of a furnace in 1880. Gradually other buildings joined Willis ' lone spire, saplings grew to trees, the Bald Spot shrank, and bv the 20 ' s, ivy covered the old building. To successive gen- erations of students Willis has been the focal point of campus life, combining post office, bulletin board, classrooms, and chimes. When the grandiose schemes for a student union simmered down to remodeling, Willis Hall was the logical choice, and so for the past two years the Willis bells have rung irregularly while workmen swing sledge hammers and haul cement to transform Willis anew into the center of college life at Carleton. Well, eventually. . 13
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WILLIS Fire! In a blinding blizzard during the Christmas holi- days in 1879, Carleton ' s principal building— seven-year- old Willis Hall— burned. Although Willis combined chapel, recitation rooms, chem lab, library, and men ' s dorm, the fire proved to be a blessing in disguise— the college ' s misfortune attracted sympathetic attention. Ready for use by the following September, the reno- vated Willis included a room for prayer meetings and the gentlemen ' s literary societies. Our academic predecessors did not spend all their time at Greek and Latin. The janitor often tugged at the bell-pull in vain, and in the fall, yellow pumpkins 12
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w: ;,- ' - - WILLIAMS Few aluinni now remember the beautiful spring dav in Jime of 1871 when Dr. Sperrv, in an impressive ceremony at Commencement, laid the cornerstone for Williams Hall, Carleton ' s second building. Its functions have varied throughout the years. After having served as the workshop of scientific observa- tions along with the observatory, it housed the art department. Some of the statues, of varying value, still remain in the rooms. Today it contains some of the classrooms and offices for Romance languages, English, economics and phi- losophy and the offices of the Alumni Association, pub- lications, the news bureau, and the testing service. As Moller stated it, The building fitted accuratelv to answer its end will turn out admirablv. 14
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