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( )n May 4. 1 ( »14, the girls broke ground for a new building, first called the Students ' Building, but now Harrison Hall. Within the next year or two a serious effort was made to substitute names for numbers in reference to all the buildings on the campus. A big feature of the seventh session was the two-day pageant in May, in honor of the birth of Shakespeare, 300 years before. In the spring of 1917 the spirit of war took hold of our campus, and The Schoolma ' am reflected it all in martial poetry and patriotic colors. In 1918 The Schoolma ' am still displayed patriotic colors — inside; outside she was clad in somber brown paper, to signify that we were trying to practice thrift and economy for a great cause. From October 7 to November 6, 1918, the school was closed because of the terrible influenza epidemic: but death did not invade our ranks. The girls came back to Blue-Stone Hill in time to raise the roof at dawn on Armistice Dav.
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In tin.- summer of 1919 President Burruss resigned to go to Blacksburg, and shortly afterwards President S. P. Duke came to the College as it-- administrative head. In February, 1920, the first issue of the Virginia Teacher appeared, following the eleventh volume of the Normal Bulletin. On Saturday, December 2. 1 22, the first issue of The Breeze blew across the campus. Roselyn Brownley and Florence Shelton carried it up from Strasburg and slipped in with it while the children, as Miss King used to say, were at supper. ( )r was it dinner ? ( n June 6, 1921, the cornerstone of Alumna? Hall was laid. It soon rose on that part of the campus that we used to call Maypole Hill, a monument to the 1 tarrisonburg Spirit. A chapter of Pi Kappa Omega, the Beta chapter of the society, was estab- lished in our college on May 23, l ' ' 2.V Tcmpits fugit, hut not the spirit.
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