Maryville College - Chilhowean Yearbook (Maryville, TN)

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1916 1899 — Expression Department established. 1901 — Art Department established. Inauguration of President Wilson. 1903 — Miss Margaret Henry begins Scholarship Work. 1 906 — Voorhees Chapel and Music Hall erected. 1907 — Bible Training Department established. 1 909 — Preparatory Course extended to four years. 1910— Forward Fund of $227,000 reached. Pearsons Hall erected. Carnegie Hall built. Lamar Memorial Hospital erected. 1 9 1 2 — Third story added to Pearsons Hall. 1 9 1 3 — Third story added to Science Hall. Home Economics Department established. 1 9 1 5 — Swimming Pool built. 1916 — April 12, Carnegie Hall burned. General Educational Board makes conditional offer of $75,000. Campaign for Forward Fund started. December 20, new Carnegie erected. Lf Agricultural Department established. M 1917— 785 students. ' (29)

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1 9 1 a Events in the History of Maryville College 1802 — Isaac Anderson opens his Log College in Grassy Valley. 1812 — Establishment of Maryville Academy. 1819 — Maryville College founded, with five students. 1 822 — Inauguration of President Anderson. 1833 — The Seminary Building erected on Main Street. 1842 — Charter of Maryville College secured. 1857 — Inauguration of President Robinson. 1861 — April 22, college work suspended on account of war. 1 866 — Maryville reopened after the war, on Main Street, in the old Barracks, with forty-seven students — two college and forty- five preparatory. 1869 — First purchase of land for present site. Anderson Hall erected. Inauguration of President Bartlett. 1870 — Memorial and Baldwin Halls built. 1871 — Establishment of Music Department. Ml 875 — First women graduates. M 1877 — February Meetings begun. 1 880 — Permanent Endowment sought. 1 888— Hill Loan Librar y established. Lamar Library erected. 1 889 — Inauguration of President Boardman. 1 890 — Erection of the President ' s house. 1 892 — Co-operative Boarding Club established. Preparatory Annex to Anderson Hall built. 1895— Bartlett Hall erected. 1 898 — Fayerweather Science Hall erected. (28) V

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1916 f1 The Old Campground By the Creek AM writing the copy for this page of the Chilhoivean, which the editors have kindly put at my disposal, just after the publication of A Century of Maryville College, and just before the February Meetings of 191 7. It is natural, then, that its topic should be suggested by the approaching meet- ings. The first college February Meeting was held in 1877, just forty years ago. Be- fore that date the college did not have its separate meetings, but united with the church people of Maryville in special services that were usually held every year. Sometimes these were union meetings, but in the ante-bellum days they were usually camp-meetings that were held by the New Providence Church. It is especially of these old Mary- ville camp-meetings that this page would make brief mention. Early in Dr. Anderson ' s pastorate in Maryville — he began to preach here in 1811 — he conducted an annual camp-meeting, which came to be recognized as the principal event of the year in Blount County. It was a feast of tabernacles, to which the people came up by families, and during which they lived in camps and sheds that had been built for their use. The campground comprised the slope, then wooded, extending up the hill from Pistol Creek, from where a concrete bridge on the Knoxville pike now spans the stream. The pike now built from the creek to the Aluminum Plant transverses the old campground. The great camp-shed stood near where a store now stands, at the junction of the Knoxville and Aluminum Plant pikes. It is said that sometimes 2,500 or 3,000 people were gathered under or around the shed. At night the scene was illuminated by pitch- pine fires that were kept blazing on the earth-covered tops of square pens built at inter- vals around the shed. And here in his rude pulpit, amid these rustic and primitive and yet impressive surroundings. Dr. Anderson stood, with flashing eye and heart-stirring eloquence, preaching the glorious gospel of grace and service. And here his colleagues and the seminary and college boys — there were no girls in the institution in those days — and the officers and the members of the churches upheld his hands and helped to win the victory. Mrs. Myra Yearout, an aged lady who has just passed away, pointed out only a few months ago the quiet place up the creek bank where the women ' s daily prayer-meet- ing was held, and, in the opposite direction, the retired spot up the hillside where the men gathered daily during the camp-meeting for their intercessory prayer. In her expres- sive words, Those old woods were prayed all over, and were watered with (he tears of God ' s people. Dr. Anderson and his helpers and hearers are gone; the woods are cut away; the (30)