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Conesioga Creek Our Growing College September 23, 1899 Elizabethtowii College received her ciiarter from the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County. July 10, 1900 Ground was broken for Alpha Hall. April 26, 1917 The ownership of the college was transferred to Eastern Pennsyl- vania. October 30, 1917 Southern Pennsylvania voted to share in tlie ownership of tiie college. June 8, 1922 Elizabethtown College legally conferred lier first degree. January 16, 1936 Membership in the Association of American Colleges. May ,5, 1918 Elizabethtown College was fully accredited by tlie Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. June 15, 1948 Membership in the American Council on Education. March 18, 1919 The Department of Education of New York State approved Eliza- betlitown College. May 30, 1949 Elizabetht jwn College graduated its largest class — 102 — at the forty-seventh annual commencement.
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DR. CHARLES APGAR DR. BESSIE APGAR — 5
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They Founded a College Before tlie dawning of tlie present century, prominent and respected leaders in llic Cluircli of the Brethren courageously founded a college based on an educational philosophy that a church related institution has a larger function than to train the intellect. The preparation of young men and women, distinguished for their liigh idealism and Christian character as well as for tlieir intellectual attainments, is the noblest objective of the college. Large in ideals, this small hilltop college in fifty years increased its enrollment over a hundredfold and enlarged its facilities to serve the present age. The symbolic Conestoga wagon as it rolled through the grasslands and wooded liill section a century earlier, provided inspiration for tlie naming of the new college. Conestoga was short-lived, however, and Elizabethtown was the name later given to this college nestled among the Conewago hills. Conewago Hills
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