Marshall University - Chief Justice Yearbook (Huntington, WV)

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GROWTH OF MARSHALL COLLEGE IN TEN YEARS; 1896-1906. 1896 1906 Number of Teachers.............................. 5 28 Number of States represcnted.................... 2 10 Number of West Va. Counties represented 12 43 Number of Counties from oilier States rep’d. 1 26 enrollment................'................... 223 978 Number of Students from other States.... 1 50 Number of Volumes in Library ................ 1200 7000 Value of Buildings and equipment............$ 65,000. §115.000 Total Value of School property .............§155,000. §265,000 Number of Graduates since made a State School 561 Number of Girls in Dormitory, 1896 ................... 13 Number of Girls in Dormitory, 1906 .................. 120 There were more than fifty girls denied admission to the dormitory last year because there was no room for them. COURSES OF STUDY. Normal Course, Ancient Language Course, Modern Language Course, Scientific Course, Vocal Music, Piano, Organ, Violin, Painting, Drawing, Elocution and Model School. 10

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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

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