Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Oak Yearbook / INSTANO Yearbook (Indiana, PA)

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the guest of honor. Many flowers filled the building, and it was decorated with the national colors. In 1910 the dining-room was enlarged by an addition seating over two hundred people. A dinner was given in the new dining-room to which the architects, the contractors, the trustees, and their wives were invited. What is now known as Recreation Hall was formerly the dining-room. In 1914 the North Annex of the girls ' dormitory housing seventy girls was built. In the same year the ambulatory around Recreation Hall was made, giving a comfortably furnished place for the enjoyment of those who do not care to dance. Plans for necessary improvements were made, and in 1908 new electric fixtures, and a cold storage plant were placed in the school. In 1916 the new library took the place of the girls ' dormitory on the first floor of the new annex. This was a decided improvement and added materially to the equipment of the school. During the year 1915 an addition was made which doubled the housing capacity of the North Annex. Many of the classes of the institution have presented their Alma Mater with valuable gifts. The class of 1893 placed a stained glass window in Leonard Hall, and the classes of ' 95 and ' 96 followed suit, with the result that there are three beautiful stained glass windows in that building, repre- senting Art, Music, and Literature, respectively. The class of 1897 pre- sented the chapel clock; that of 1903, the sun dial; and of 1917, the library clock. The drinking fountains on the first and second floors of Sutton Hall were the gift of the class of 1908. In 1920 the entire ownership and control of the school passed to the State of Pennsylvania. In 1923, Clark Hall became a girls ' dormitory, and the boys were placed in town in homes selected by the school. In 1927 a new Physical Education building was begun on the West Campus, and it now stands completed, devoted solely to the interests of health and physical education. Besides the changes that have been made in equipment and buildings, Indiana has advanced decidedly in other ways. From the old-fashioned publication of a long-past day comes the edict, Mixed groups of ladies and gentlemen are not to stand in the corridors conversing. Today we walk about the campus in happy companionship, enjoying the privileges of a more modern conception of social life. The most important step in the development of the school is the change from a Normal School to a Teachers College of Class A rating, offering a degree in education in each of its five courses. Students and alumni of Indiana may well be proud of the purposeful progress which their Alma Mater has made, and every indication points to the fact that Indiana will continue to widen her Broadening Trail. I:k-vi-n

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o. ur ampus Friendly oaks, You promise us much in the springtime, You fulfill your promise of beauty. Change to a deeper beauty, Then stand barren — Yet ever lovely Straight soldiers watching — Watching a never ending stream of youth. A group of cherished buildings, A sweep of green to the east, A fountain, flowers, A flag- All parts of the ineffable picture which is Our campus. — Annabelle Hutson