College of Wooster - Index Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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3 s Bowman Hall, one of the three freshman women dormitories at the college. Kenarden, home of upperclass men, is also the NOW WOOSTER Fnom sm BUllDlnGS The survival and growth that followed the tire which consumed Old Main may be traced through a half-eentury of sound and energetic development. It began with President Hold- enas now famous telegram to Andrew Car- negie: Yesterday I was president of a college; today I am president of a hole in the ground? The language of the telegram was one of those calculated understatements which in- spired college presidents must make from time to time to dramatize the importance of their task. If Louis Holden had not been still the president of a college. that hole would not have been filled. l7p0n his shoulders the disaster rested most heavily. but he was not a man to quail. lle r xalized that despair never produced confidence. and that a long face never produced a long bank account. He set about his llereulian task. organizing the forces of the university dashing otT appeals and Circulars of information with hapoleonie dispatch. He had begun the rehuihiin;T ot. a school with an invincible destiny Wm , v m V x x t . lhe Student Ilium. once the old uhserx'utory. houses the lmokslore. the snack lmr. and lllllSiP rtmni.

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h. k ' t xi f . vx v; wawm . t ,sza'xzfyrxggwa ' m, The University of Wooster before the fire. On the far left is the gym, then Old Main, half of the library, Hoover Cottage, and the observatory. whole sky was a red glare . . . and then, nothing but a shell remained? . .h ,..,.wmzmm9W MWWM; 0n the hill .

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Eight unusually quiet Wooster co-eds live in LaMaison Francaise. They may speak only in French. 1 traditional home of the sections, Woosterts frats. HAS MANY DIFFERENT FEATURES In 1901 10 Iwenw-nlne In 1952 A tide of strength rose around Louis Holden. The community rallied to the cause and joined hands with the university. The faculty gave heart and mind and will to the cause. They gave moreetheir life-savings so that the college that had been so close to them would not perish, but rise again out of the ashes. Their names are among Wooster,s greatest: Professors Dickason, Compton, Notestein, Mateer, Behoteguy, Black, and many others. And now we are enjoying the fruits of the labors of these great men. With the starting impetus of their own funds, the college began the long task of rebuilding. Louis Holden had a dream of not one new building to replace the shambles of Old Main, but five. And it was for this end that he cam- paigned. With the challenge of Andrew Car- negie before him-that he would give $100,000 if President Holden and the college could raise $150,000 more within sixty days-the college as we now know it began. The quota was raised within the prescribed time, and Wooster once again began to look toward the future with the pride and confidence born from the knowledge that a job had been done well. Starting with the nucleus of the five planned buildings, the college has, through the years, added many more bringing the total up to twenty-nine. The units, home of the sophomore men, were built during the war to accommodate the mili- tary groups here.