Davidson College - Quips and Cranks Yearbook (Davidson, NC)

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improved, and a quarter-mile running track con- structed. A bicycle club has been organized, and the large drives of the campus have been connected by curved paths. This gives a roughly circular track for bicycle racing or practice nearly a half mile in length. A roller-skating club and a gun club have also been added to the list of athletic organizations. The latter has five traps located on college land not far from the campus. There are also eleven tennis courts in active operation on the college grounds. The location of the college is midway between Charlotte and Statesville, on the A. , T. O. R. R. It has four trains a day, connecting at Charlotte with the Southern, the C. C. and the C. C. A., and at Statesville with the W. N. C. R. R. The village has about eight hundred inhabitants, a handsome church and mission chapel, a flourishing classical academy of high grade, and no barrooms.

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Davidson, who, in the ardor of patriotism, fearlessly contending for the liberty of his country, fell, uni- versally lamented, in the battle of Cowans Ford. On March i, 1837, the new institution opened with sixty-six students. Dr. Morrison was President and Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, Dr. Spar- row, afterward President of Hampden Sidney, Pro- fessor of the Ancient Languages, and Mortimer D. Johnston, of Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, Pro- fessor of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences. Thus, fifty-eight years ago, the college was founded, the fruit of the prayers, sacrifices and consecrated zeal of the best educat ed men of the most highly educated section of the Carolinas. It is not our purpose to trace its long and illustrious career, nor to call the roll of its scores of distinguished alumni. Having described the founding of the college, let us examine its modern history more closely. During the last ten years numerous improvements have been made, both in the courses offered and in the facilities for their successful prosecution, till, in the extent and thoroughness of the education it offers, Davidson College has hardly its equal in the Southern States. For the information of the older alumni we will enumerate some of the more important improve- ments. A Professorship of English, with a four years ' course, and one of the English Bible, with a three- years ' course, have been established. The three libraries of the college and literary societies have been consolidated in the large library of the main building, and a permanent librarian employed. Two reading- rooms, one for religious the other for secular papers and magazines, have been fitted up and opened. A gas plant has been set up which furnishes gas to the college laboratories and lights the center hall of the main building. Three new laboratories for students ' work have been fitted up for the Departments of Electricity, Mineralogy and Quantitative Chemistry. The courses in Chemistry, Physics, Political Econ- omy, History, Astronomy, Metaphysics and Meteor- ology have been much extended and improved. Sec- ond year courses have also been added in French and German. The first Y. M. C. A. hall on a Southern campus was finished in 1890. It is named, in honor of the founder and first president of the college, Morrison Memorial Hall, is sixty-seven by forty five feet, two and a half stories high, contains gymnasium, running track, assembly hail, parlor and reading-rooms, and is handsomely furnished throughout. The associa- tion of which it is the home is the most thoroughly organized college association, according to the state- ments of the intercollegiate secretaries, in the South. Between fifty and sixty of its members are ready at any time to conduct religious services, and more than half that number are actively engaged in mission work in the surrounding country. In the facilities for physical training the advance has been equally marked. A large gymnasium, sixty- five by forty three feet, has been erected and furnished, and a regular instructor employed. A general ath- letic association has been organized, and an annual field-day, the last Saturday in April, set apart for ath- letic contests. Lake Wiley, covering ten or twelve acres, has been constructed, within fifteen minutes ' walk of the college. It is furnished with two bath- houses, six boats, a deep-water spring-board, and a water-toboggan slide over two hundred feet long. The baseball and football grounds have been leveled and

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Entrance Examinations Wednesday Fall Term Began Thursday Thanksgiving Exercises Thursday • Intermediate Examinations Began Tuesday . Fall Term Closed Friday . . Spring Term Opened Tuesday . Sophomore Banquet Friday . . Junior Orations Friday • • Day of Prayer for Schools and Col- leges Thursday ■ Eumenean Declaimers ' Contest . . . Saturday . Maxwell Chambers Day (Senior Ora- tions) Saturday . . April 13th Junior Entertainment Monday ■ ■ April 15th Eumenean Prize Debate Saturday . . April 20th Philanthropic Declaimers ' Contest . Friday . . . April 26th Athletic Day Saturday . . April 27th Philanthropic Prize Debate Saturday . . May 4th Senior Examinations Began - . . Tuesday . . May I4 tn Final Examinations Began . . . .Monday- • . May 27th Baccalaureate Sermon . II A. M. Sunday . . June 9th Sermon Before Y. M. C. A. . 8 P. M. Sunday . . . June 9U1 Class Tree Planting Monday . . June 10th Senior Dramatics 8:30 p. M. Monday . . . June 10th Annual Meeting of Trustees, n A. M. Reunion of Literary Societies. S p. M. Address Before Literary Societies, 11 A. M. Alumni Oration n A. M. Meeting of Alumni Association, 4 P. M. Alumni Banquet Anniversary of Literary Societies, 5 P. M. Oratorical Contest 8 p. m. Actaeon Banquet . . . 10 p.m. Commencement Day Tuesday- Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday June nth . June 1 ith . June 1 2th . June 1 2th Wednesday . June 12th Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Thursday . . June 12II1 . June 12th . June 12th June 13th