Denison University - Adytum Yearbook (Granville, OH)

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» 9 l 7 Burton Hall marks the first attempt to adjust the old school to the require- ments of a younger generation. Under its hospitable new roof gathered teach- ers and officers, preparatory students, specials, and a sprinkling of college girls. It housed offices, recitation rooms and dining hall, in addition to its functions as a dormitory. In its familiar halls first experiences of college days return, together ivith the thrills and pangs of senior year. Old joys, old friendships, old ideals and hopes shine in the rosy light of youth. — Jessie Husted Chamberlain ' 97 12

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The New Brick, as we called Talbot Hall! How the flood-gate of Mem- ory stoings on its hinges as I look upon you! Why some of those bricks that made thy enduring walls, I carried there with my own hands and watched them laid in place! How there troops back to me from the ghostly past the faces and forms of those whose life ' s history is entwined with thine! Those saintly instructors, Talbot, Marsh, John Stevens, Gilpatrick, Will Stevens, Thresher, Hicks, how they all come out of the dim past as I gaze on thee! And those pals, those college chums of the early ' 70 ' s! I love their memory as I stand in their shadow! But, Dear Building, thy lesson has been learned. The youth- ful audacity of splendid ignorance has shaped itself into earnest labor for the great object for which you stand. — Samuel B. Brierly ' 75 11

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5 = 1 At the beginning of the administration of Dr. Galusha Anderson, he planned with the trustees for the organization of the Preparatory Department under the name of Granville Academy. In September 1887, I entered upon the Mork ivith such splendid associates as L. E. Akins, W. H. Johnson and W. G. Tight, and it ivas successful from the outset. Within a feio years. Dr. W. H. Doane erected for the Academy the building which it still occupies and one year after its dedication, the trustees changed the name to Doane Academy. Since my removal from Granville, I have ivatched the career of Doane Academy with unusual interest and shall always rejoice in its success. I have great hopes for its continued growth under the Principal who has for fifteen years served it so faithfully and tvell, and the brilliant young President of the University, whom I remember ivith affection as one of my own boys. —J. D. S. RIGGS 13