Culver Military Academy - Roll Call Yearbook (Culver, IN)

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. CC :- I .fx fx 'gf I f ' n tj. L1 The Greatest Culver r , D Exactly ten years ago the board of trustees decided upon a Greater Culver i li plan, by which the aca.de1ny, although the leading milit.ary preparatory scho-ol, 7 1 1 at that time, would become an instit.ution that would mark a new epoch in secondary school training. VVith that decision, hundreds of thousands of dollars 1 were spent toward t.he beantifying of the academy grounds, the bettering of 1 the faculty and the erection of the mess hall. 'Aga.in, in 1915, another plan was. launched which might well be termed the A ' Still Grea.ter Culvert' project, and which is now nearing completion. This 1 f included the erection of the new riding hall, arsenal and swimming pool and l the making of t.he new drill fields and rifle range. In connection, also, it was decided that the corps should be limited' to 600 cadets. A With us, now, is the third, or Greatest Culver plan of construction- f 1 probably the last, but certainly the most extensive. When it has been completed . Culver will stand above all other military institutions. in the worldfcollege or y preparatory. The coming period of Culver history will be one of mighty achievements,iand, surely, success. The New Bairraicks. ' - - The first feature on the f'Great.est Culver program is the new barrack, 1 which is under construction as this book goes to press. It is to be forty feet l southwest of the South ba.rra.ck and will continue in that direction twenty-five V . feet from, and following the road leading to the Palmer' House. From this main 5 building, jutting out in the ma.nner of lingers, 'are to be three wings, only t.wo 3 of which are at present being constructed. Each finger ' will be capable of a y 5 capacity of approximately 100 cadets. The building will be a. three-story affair, and will have a basement a.bove the ground level. In this bo-tt.om floor o-f one- 1 of the wings will be a trunk-room, while in the other there will be section rooms, including a mechanical drawing room. This will enable the Physics laboratory p to occupy all of the west wing of fourth floo-r Main barrack. The M emorial Libra-ry, p The third Hflngerl' of the new barracks, to be erect.ed a.t some future date, ' will come within fifty feet of Culver's Memorial Library, the second feature of the Greatest Culver project, the picture of which appears in the Alumni sec- tion of this bo-ok. This structure is to- rank with the riding ha.ll, swimming pool and mess hall as the finest building o-f its kind in the world. Its architecture is to be on the order of that throughout the campus. This edifice is to occupy - the present site of Fleet cottage, being two stories high and having two- large V 4 towers, copied fro-m an old English castle. The main entrance, flanked by the P l turrets will lead into the hilemorial Hall itself, where the deeds and names of A ig Culver's heroes will be forever commemorated. For the library part of the build- 521 ing, there will be a reading room and a periodical room, each 33x55, and a stack QQ ig room, with a. total capacity of 25,000 volumes. Occupying the second floor and rf 23 g 2 T' f C