Denison University - Adytum Yearbook (Granville, OH)

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What a rush of pleasant memories come crowding doion through the vista )f the years as I look upon its familiar outlines! Thirty years have passed since as a freshman I entered the building. How vividly I remember that first glance )f Doane Hall — the tables heaped high ivith books that needed to be arranged and placed on the shelves. Thirty years have ivrought great changes; the star of a greater Denison is just appearing on the horizon, larger and more brilliant than ojie even dared to dream of then. The old building has served its purpose nobly, but a neiv building is needed. Can not this be provided in some ivay; if possible, to the memory of that grand man, William Hoivard Doayie, the gen- erous donor of the old building? What greater monument to a noble man ' s memory What more pressing from a scholastic and university need! — Wallace H. Cathcart ' 90 14

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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

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The Observatory distinguishes the College. A stranger entering the vil- lage before it was built and looking up at the hill might have wondered if it was an infirmary on a large scale or an institution for feeble minded. Noiv ivhoever sees the observatory dome in the group of buildings knows it is a col- lege. It is like Mr. Swasey ' s ivork, the best of its kind; not the largest, but finished. It is genuine in construction and fine in finish. When it ivas dedi- cated, a scientist who was present said to me, I have seen every observatory of importance on earth and there is nothing in the same class ivith this. — Dr. Emory W. Hunt 15