Gettysburg College - Spectrum Yearbook (Gettysburg, PA)

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In 1921, Pennsylvania College of Gettysburg had its name officially changed to Gettysburg College. This decade saw the tearing down of the old professor's cottage and the construction of the Library in its place. The old McCreary Lab standing to the east of Pennsyl- vania Hall was also demolished, and the YMCA Building ttoday called Weidensall HalD, Eddie Plank Gym- nasium and Breidenbaugh Hall were erected. ,4. . ,. ..,--..4,,v af... ., z! i .URE SURRENDERS; CHURCHILL URGES UNITY masburg Road area to build the Nixon Athletic Field. Stine Lake and the Freshman Quad are located in this area today and the faint out- lines of a track oval and baseball diamond can still be detected. By 1900, College development had leveled off, with no major expansion until the 1920's. At the turn of the century, the campus was bounded by Constitution Avenue, West Lincoln Avenue, Carlisle, Stevens and North Washington Streets. tmt-:.u.-.. 1,: t a . ywn Ih rilinh n, . a +.. I-cJJW '. N

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planned to go to Harvard or Yale. This would hardly be the case today! A change of town roads in the 1890's altered the appearance of the grounds. Until 1897, Mum- masburg Road extended from Carlisle Street, through the pres- ent campus tbetween Weidensall and Breidenbaugh, through the southern corner of Rice HaID into the residential block be- tween West Lincoln and West Broadway. A local planner, Mar- tin Winter, urged the town to vacate most of Mummasburg Road, and extend North Wash- ington Street to the newly built West Lincoln and West Broad- way Streets. Harvey W. Mc- Knight, President of the College, supported this plan, and the College took advantage of the change and used the old Mum-

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Building twhich is the present Weidensall HaID was gutted by fire. The building was rebuilt, expanded and reopened in 1948, just two years after the blaze. The land along West Lincoln Street where the Dining Hall and Cottages are located was bought in the 1950's. The old Kappa Delta Rho Fraternity House stood where the Dining Hall parking lot is now. the Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity owned the Dining Hall property prior to the timevthe College bought it. The outbreak of World War II brought another change to the face of the Gettysburg College campus. The male student population de- creased, and some fraternities became in- active. Large Quansit barracks were built for military training on both sides of West Lincoln Avenue where the College Union, Apple Hall and Bream Gymnasium now stand. The only major fire in a Gettysburg College building occurred on November 24, 1946, 1; when the Student Christian Association . .x.---h,-..-:-.. .... -..;....,s , WNMWQ3D55WM.5u5u-.n-v.eemv.-.44..x u ms. . .. . .