College of Wooster - Index Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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. . . We are gathered here together for to plant the ivy deep. Throt the long years by our chapel ever proudly shalt thou grow In the sun and in the shadow, in the Maytime, in the snow. Thou, the first to grow in Wooster, for the Wooster that shalt be As it grows, thou shalt be growing both in strength and majesty-a Grow in strength and majesty-e As thou growest, as may we In the misty years before us toward the better things to be- Latest child of Nineteen Two Thee we leave to Wooster U. Thou shalt ever grow, and, growing,' keep our memory fresh and new. -planting of the first ivy 0f the new Wooster against the foundation of the chapel by the class of 1902. I952 Index published by the Junior Class The College of Wooster Wooster, Ohio

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Old Maineout of its ashes, phoenix-like, grew a new Wooster. MEMORIES FROM THE PAST THE BUanG OF OLD mnm llT THE TORCH OF THE FUTURE t ' 9 'oht. The fam- as rin in insistentl downstalrs. What s up? It was .the dead 99f Inc a . ilglhzsefgghogglgep for Emigrs. To theiurried Hello9, came an answerlng V'Olce,f Thecoltltegebzsfotilg fifef A rush to the window. Already the whole sky was a red-glare. It was .a e.ts uimu - qt winor three on Wednesday mOrning, December 11, 1901. At two-thlrty an explosmn mft 1e dxs 3 113115 had awakened the assistant Janitor, David Gill. As he hurrled to mvestlgate. h'ellou'nd I116 tele- alreadv full of smoke and the flames making rapid headway. Other loud blasts 1e lowe . Cue to phonea the fire department. Within a few minutes others who had heard the exp Oslon cal v the campus. By this time the Hames were licking at the whole of the west wmg. 'bulldlelllyts 11:13:: into the east wing to salvage what they could from the musepm and the blologlca file? use t F rom the west wing, however, before the flre department had tlme t0 arnve. the Hames MM: 21th with mysterious rapidity into the main section and wereshootlng from the central tower. .- arev'th Captain Kauke was on the ground in hip boots, and w1th mattock and shovel wastdlgglltllltl IH' t all his strength to get at and shut off at the main the gas that was adtilltg tue! t0 the hte. R Ed was so intense that it was no longer possible to come close to the hulhhng. liuven the hrenten well? helpless. They did little but hold back the crowd. Here on the top 01 the hill the power trom t 19 hydrants was not sufficiently strong to enable them to throw water the great distanves. that YEN: necessary. The night was very still; yet the slight wind from the south was carrying burning 0111 TB and parts of books far to the north. Still glowing they were .i'alliugs as it was afterwards loulld- 1 yards and fields, one, two, three miles awa Meantime a silent crowd listened to the roarin in, walls crumble and fall. Once the flames parted and gave by the memories of thirty-one years. Once again as a single instant Professor Notestein 100 for each and every one of the faculty g and crackling flames. and watched floors vaVe a glimpse into the old chapel. hallowed a wall fell out. the flames drew apart and tor ked for a farewell 11101110111 inlo his own classrmnn. And so as he or she stood there in the snow. lhis was a moment at tragedy? The above account Of the fire was taken from Lum Lilian anesleixfs historic hunk h ouster 0f the Middle West?7 '