Marshall University - Chief Justice Yearbook (Huntington, WV)

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in the United States, toward adapting them for the purpose for which they have been appropriated. The elevated center, seemingly intended to receive some royal palace, extends from within 200 feet of the west end, where the summit of the somewhat abrupt but extremely graceful incline from the Sixteenth Street level is crowned with large wide spreading beech and some smaller trees ten to twelve inches in diameter, eastward 000 feet where it terminates in a deep terrace thirty feet high, which terrace serves as the west bank of a deep ravine. The ravine or, brooklet, enters the ground on the south-east corner and winds its way in deep, graceful curves north-westward through the grounds lined throughout its course with noble trees varying in diameter from ten to thirty inches. It is the beautiful curving of the deep banks of this brooklet, fringed with stately trees and covered with verdure, especially at its north western portion, that Dr. Goss, of Cincinnati, thought the most beautiful spot he had ever seen on a College campus. This brooklet with an arm extending eastward and covered with over fifty trees, forms the eastern boundary of the elevated center of the campus referred to above. Beyond the ravine and about twenty feet lower than the elongated elevation of the center, to the eastward is the young men’s athletic grounds, about four acres and almost entirely level. The northern or Third Ave. frontage descends by a deep, carefully cultivated terrace some twenty feet from the high central portion, and from the foot of the terrace to Third Avenue it is nearly level. On this portion are the main entrance, (a brick walk, twelve feet wide), fifteen of the finest old trees, the croquet grounds and one of the tennis courts. To the south of the rise extending east and west through the center, the grounds slope gently to College Avenue, this section being a little wider than the northern frontage. The drive-way enters from College Avenue, about the middle from east to west, comes at right angles to the buildings, curves gracefully around the large sycamore at the immediate south of College ITall and retraces itself. The eastern portion of the south side is given up to the girls’ basket ball grounds. u

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of Morgantown, in 1880; Mr. Hodges resigned in 1890, to accept the chair of Physics, in the State University, and was succeeded l»y L. J. Corbly, of Alina, West Virginia, who was called from his graduate work in the University of Berlin, Germany. The school buildings are located in the center of the school grounds, on an elevation of about 20 feet above the surrounding streets, overlooking the entire grounds, a wide area of the city, the Ohio hills on the north, and the West Virginia bills on the south. With the addition of the new building our school edifice now consists of a series of five buildings, solidly connected, a continuous ball way extending from one end to the other. The buildings have their main frontage on Third Avenue and Sixteenth Street. The Third Avenue or north frontage is about 400 Teel in length, and faces the Ohio River, two blocks distant with the fine range of bills which fringe the bank on the Ohio side. The Sixteenth Street or West frontage is 140 feet in length, facing the main part of the city. The secondary frontages are tin College Avenue or the south front, 400 feet and the Seventeenth Street or east front, 55 feet. The two eastern sections of the buildings, composed of three wings 20x55 feet, 10x70 feet and 10x75 feet compose the ladies dormitory sections, known as College Hall. Between these and the other sections there is a heavy brick wall with no openings in it above the first floor. The three western sections are given up exclusively to school work. These are respectfully, beginning with the most eastern, 70x78, 55x84, and 101x140 feet. All have been built since 1807. one excepted, and that one was thoroughly overhauled inside and out in 1800, thus making the entire series new and up-to-date, in their appointments. The school grounds located between Third Avenue on the north and College Avenue on the South and between Six teenth Street on the west and Seventeenth Street on the east, two city blocks in length and one and one-half in width, con tain even sixteen acres of land, for which nature has done as much, perhaps, as for any school grounds of their size 13

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Resides over 100 small trees, chiefly sugar maple, planted within the last five years, and the shrubbery scattered over I lie Third Avenue front, there are the following trees: Raw-paw, 1 ; unnamed, 1 ; cherry, 1 ; ash,l ; locust, 3; poplar, 3; sugar, 4; gum, 0; oak, 11; beech, 23; Lombardy poplar, 25; sycamore, 30; elm, 07; total, 182, more than one hundred of which are large trees and few of (he one-hundred and eighty-two are less than eight to ten inches in diameter. Paralleling (he longer dimensions of (he grounds, ((he eastern-western dimension) and but two city blocks to the north, is (he majestic Ohio River; one block nearer on the same side is (he R. O. Ky., and bounding the northern front is Third Avenue, 100 feet wide, on which is (lie Camden Interstate Ky., (electric), connecting the College with all parts of the city, with Guyandotte, four miles to the east; Central City, four miles to the west; Cemlo, eight miles west; Kenova. ten miles; Catlettsburg, Kv., twelve miles; Clyffeside Park, with its beautiful groves and beautiful lake, fourteen miles; Ashland, Ky., sixteen miles; and I ronton, Ohio, twenty one miles west; students from which centers and from the intermediate smaller towns landing from this, one of the finest electric roads in the United States, at the very gate of the College. This electric line brings Marshall College in immediate connection with the homes of about 40,000 people. To the opposite side of the grounds, (the College Avenue or south side), and three blocks distant, is the C. O. Ky., and but one and one-half blocks distant is the Sixth Avenue branch of the Camden Inter-State Ry. Such, plainly and briefly put is the history of Marshall College and a homely description of its buildings, grounds and location. The enrollment of the school grew very gradually and was sometimes high, sometimes low, but did not reach the 200 mark till 1805-00, when it went to 223, since which time it has gradually grown till during the session of 1905-0(5, it reached 078. 15