Elmhurst College - Elms Yearbook (Elmhurst, IL)

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Administration Building This building, erected in 1878, and dedicated in October of the same ear, is without a doubt the most renown ed of all buildings on the campus. It has served the purpose of a dormitory and an instruction hall ever since it was erected. It was in ten rooms of this building that we partook of the Wisdom that will mean so much to us. On the morning of June 6, 1920, a fire in the northwest wing did con- siderable damage, but quick action saved the building. l ' ] to this time the building had undergone no important changes, but since the lire, (|uile a changes have taken place. New class-rooms were added, and a liotanical. Biological, and Physiological Laboratory — whicli has latel been renioxed lo the basement of the New Memorial Library — were i ri)vi(led. 9

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I am the Music House and justly proud am I, for I am the oldest of all the brick buildings on the college grotmds, being built ' way back in 1873. Many things could I tell you that have gone on within my walls, but I am not to make my story too long. Very happy were the people when I was erected, and the students also were well pleased with me. The dining hall of the school used to be down on my basement floor before the present dining hall was erected. I enjoyed having so many youths gather then about the tables thrice a day to eat. In the rooms on the left side of me on the main floor are quartered the pianos upon which the students practice their music lessons. The school band now also makes use, of a large room on my second floor in which they practice once a week. Since my brother buildings became too overcrowded with the arrival of so many new students this year, the Senior class of the Academy now also lives with me. They occupy the rooms on the first and second floors, while the top floor contains the rooms of ten college students. I enjoy living among the students, but it seems they do not think so ' much of me any more because of my age. They poke fun at me and call me manv humorous names, which make me feel verv sad. I I . I . i ' ' !

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TKe Dining Hall The Dining Hall is the building to which all students are immediateh ' drawn. The first floor contains the kitchen and dining room. On the second and third floors are the hospital rooms to which the students may come when they feel indisposed (to study). The building was dedicated on the 25th anniversary of the college in 1896. No important changes have been made in the building. During the past year the Ladies ' Auxiliary has put new furniture into the hospital rooms to make them more cheerful. 10