Guilford College - Quaker Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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THE GLU AlbCEL ]F In 1913 a new dormitory for boys, Cox Hall, was erected, accommodations in which have added much to the comfort of young men who have lived in this building. In 1909, through a contribution of nine thousand dollars by Andrew Carnegie, a new Library was erected. The same year a new building was erected for class rooms and a physics laboratory, both these being made necessary in consequence of the second fire, this destroying a second building on the same site. The year before Founders Hall was renewed, steam heat was introduced and the old building, being almost recreated, was made fit for another long term of service. Electric lights had been introduced into the buildings several years before. The increase of endowment, bringing the permanent fund up to o ne hundred and eighty-seven thousand dollars, has been a source of greatly increased power centered in the institution. The added requirements for admission and the development of the de- partments of instruction made possible by the endowment have given the college standing in the eyes of educated people, and there has long been at Guilford an atmosphere of scholarship and solid work and worth.

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THE ( UAlhCELR, department of the Romance Languages at Johns Hopkins University, holding a professor- ship from the opening of the University until his death. The growth of the school from 1878 to 1888 is worthy of note. The Trustees at the last named date decided to change the school to a college. Francis T. King, of Baltimore, whose interest in education in North Carolina for many years gave his judgment great weight with North Carolina Friends, favored the change, and suggested the name Guil- ford College. The yearly meeting gave the yearly meeting house for a school building. The necessary changes were made in the large brick house which stood nearly on the site of the present Library, there being space enough for class rooms and study hall on the first floor and for dormitories for young men on the second floor. In 1884 President Joseph Moore, of Earlham College, had been called to the princi- palship of the school, who succeeded for a period of four years L. Lyndon Hobbs, who had been principal since 1878. In 1885 this large building, named King fdall, was destroyed by fire, and, as a conse- quence, Archdale Hall was built and a new King Hall was erected on the site of the one destroyed. In 1888 President Joseph Moore resigned and returned to Earlham College. His work at the school and in the yearly meeting, both as a teacher and as a preacher, cannot be too highly praised. His scientific ability, his gentlemanliness in every walk of life and his marked success as a teacher made his work in North Carolina distinctly valuable. Lewis Lyndon Hobbs was chosen President of the college and served continuously to the close of the year ending June L 1915. In this long period great changes were made in the buildings and equipments, in the faculty, in endowment and in the development of the courses of study and in the recognition of Guilford ' s place in the institutions of the State. In 1897 James B. and B. N. Duke, of Durham, gave the college ten thousand dollars to construct Memorial Hall, this being in memory of their sister, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lyon. Subsequently they gave fifteen thousand dollars on endowment. They and their sister were at one time students in the school. In 1907 New Garden Hall was built for girls who might desire to lessen the e.xpense of living at the college, thus reducing the cost of an education and gaining an opportunity to obtain a college training and an academic degree which otherwise in many instances would have been missed. This was the enterprise of the women of North Carolina Yearly Meeting, and the we ll furnished substantial brick building stands as a monument to the noble work made possible by this arrangement.

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