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Gettysburg College Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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i i i g i i i Gettysburg College is one of approximately forty institutions of higher learning begun in the 1830s. As in the case of most colleges which trace their origins this far back into American history, religious motives figured prominently in the beginnings of Gettysburg. The principal founder was the Reverend Samuel Simon Schmucker f1799-1873i, a young Lutheran clergyman who had studied at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton Theological Semi- nary. After a charter had been secured from This is a building which over the years has had many different names. At first when it housed the entire college it was called the College or the College Edifice. When, in 1890, the build- ing was converted to a dormitory it was called the Dormitory Hall. But in 1898 when a new dormitory, McKnight Hall, was built people be- gan to call the old one the Old Dorm. It was known as such to hundreds and hundreds of students. In 1970 after the building had been completely renovated as an administrative center it was officially named Pennsylvania Hail. To most stu- dents today it is known as Penn Hall. 2 Gettysburg Reviewed Gettysburgi the state legislature in the spring of 1832, Penn- t sylvania College of Gettysburg admitted its first i students in the fall of the same year. The corpo- rate name was not changed to Gettysburg until , 1921. The first building, the College Edifice, was oc- cupied in the fall of 1837. It contained living quarters, classrooms, libraries, and the Chapel. The steward, who made the meals and kept the rooms clean, lived on the ground floor with his family. The president of the college lived with his family on the second floor. There were many regulations which the students had to 5. obey. For example, students were expected to rise and retire by the bell. Students were not , Stevens Hall was built in 1867-68 and named in honor of Thaddeus Stevens, a prominent member of the United States House of Re- presentatives and for more than thirty years a trustee and devoted supporter of the col- lege. Stevens Hall was built for the prepara- i tory department, or academy, which was part of the college during the first century of its existence. After the academy closed in 1935 it became a dormitory for women and has been used for that purpose ever since.
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