Mercersburg Academy - Karux Yearbook (Mercersburg, PA)

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KJIIIIIIIItllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIHIUIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllliIlllllfllllllllllllllxux T h e K a r U X xxxllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIDIIIIIIIIIIIlllllIIlllllllllllllllllllilllx illlvrrerahnrg in Glhinet 'r EARS ago a son of old Mercersburg, Dr. William E. Hoy, founded the North Japan College at Sendai, Japan, which institution has since become the leading Christian College of the northern part of the empire. After laboring there with abundant success for many years, Dr. Hoy became practically incapacitated on account of severe and frequent attacks of asthma. On this account he was given a three month's vacaton in the spring of 1898. He imme- diately started for China. After a short perod of time he found himself entirely free from his former disability and spent the re- mainder of his furlough in gathering infor- mation concerning the country to which he had come as an invalid. Day by day the claims of China weighed upon his mind and entered his heart. He began to see in his illness and its cure a call of God to a new pioneer work. Consequently his request to be appointed to China was granted by the Church and he left Japan on October 28, r IS99. On November l5, IS99, he arrived at Hankow and began the study of the Chi- nese language. The latter part of April of the following year he started on up the Yangtse river, bound for Yochow City. Then the Boxer uprising came and he was compelled to return to Japan. However, he took a Chinese teacher with him and continued his study of Chinese. December 23, l90l, found him back in Yochow, established in his own home. Most unexpectedly the London Mission property in Yo- chow City was offered to him at cost price. This offer was gladly accepted and Dr. Hoy found himself established with the necessary equipment and property with which too begin the magnifrcient work which has followed and with which Mercers- burg has been actively associated ever since. No sooner had Dr. Hoy settled in his humble home than a military official called on him and asked him to teach his little son. This was gladly promised him. ln September, l902, Dr. Hoy organized the Seek New Learning School with nine pupils and one Chinese teacher. The school grew so rapidly that its Hrst quarters were soon too small. Others were built and out-grown. In February, I907, the school was moved to a most beautiful campus of a large tract of land, overlooking Tungting Lake, whereon have been erected a splendid and commodious group of modern college buildings. There are four Departments: Preparatory three years: Academy four yearsg College four years: Theological Seminary three years. All of these years a portion of the Sunday offerings at Mercersburg has been devoted to the support of some of the students of this school. Mercersburg has been especially interested in the Medical Department of the mission station at Yochow. The first medical missionary, Dr. Albert Beam, was 7 DR. ADAMS AND FAMILY .nlllllll ' 'llllllllllllllllllllllnllllxx 1 9 1 8 KNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllIllllIllllllllKllllIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllillllllllllllllu

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KIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllKlllllllllllllIJIIIIIIIIIIIIKllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllxxx T h e K a r u X xxxlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKI-g small inlirmary was built, and during the winter of i905 and l906 the larger infirmary was completed. Even without the additions now under construction to these buildings we can boast of the best equipped inlirmary connected with any educational institution in the state. The ten-acre track on which Laucks Hall now stands was next purchased, and in the summer of i906 this dormitory was erected. The following year Main Hall wing was enlarged by a fifteen-foot addition, extending from cellar to roof. In l909 the ground was broken for the Gymnasium, in l9l0 the power plant was built, and in l9l I the building of the Gymnasium was begun. The following year this building, which is ranked superior to any gymnasium of a boys' preparatory school in the country, was completed, the dedicatory service being held in October. Altho the Gymnasium is the newest of our buildings, the story of the growth of the academy equipment is not complete without mention of the various additions to the school property which had taken place from time to time. One of the earliest purchases, not previously mentioned, was that of the held upon which the big infirmary now stands, a field which stretches eastward to the top of the hill as far as the academy property ex- tends. When the three lots which now comprise the Rose Garden were purchased, the building now known as Maple Cottage was moved from this land to its present site and enlarged for a small dormitory. After the purchase of the Laucks Hall tract the out-of-door theatre was planned and in l9l2 it was completed. The large held in front of Main Hall, together with the adjoining fields to the south. as far as the Green- castle pike, were soon purchased, piece by piece from Henry Spangler, Esq., and the Hon. A. H. Schnebly. The ground known as the academy truck garden on which are the wagon shed, barns, orchard, etc., was purchased in 1899 from Edward Y. Weber, of New York City. These, and other additions, now make the academy property total one hundred and twenty acres of land, stretching from the site of Maple cottage on the north to the Greencastle Pike on the south: and from the hill-top east of the Infirmary to Church street, the Reformed Church parsonage, Hoffeditis house, and the adjoining lane on the west. A glance into the future brings before our vision other beautiful and serviceable buildings to be erected on the campus. The first of these will be the Chapel, already designed by Mr. R. A. Cram, the noted architect. This building will cost SI50,000. exclusive of memorials, and will crown the hill to the southwest of Eighty-Eight dormi- tory. The present war is delaying the carrying out of these plans. After the chapel will come the recitation and administration buildings, science hall and library. But such a glance is into the distant future. 6 KllllIIIllllllKIlllllllllllIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllKJIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllll 1 9 1 8 l lIlIIllvum-sllll 71 .4 F .4 F .4 H : r. : R : z : a : r. : n : 5 : Fu : E R : Fi : E R : 2 : z : : -.: .1 -.: R : E Q :

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1111 1 F1i.i11E1X 11111 1 1111 II 11116111 DR. ADAMS IN THE OPERATING ROOM sent from and by Mercersburg to that section of China and his successor, Dr. W. F. Adams, is supported by Mercersburg today. The beginnings of that medical work is described by Dr. Adams in the History of the China Mission, as follows: On Christmas Day, 1902, Dr. 'A. Beam and his wife, who is also a train- ed physician, arrived in Yochow City. For a year and a half they lived in very limited quarters, consisting of two rooms and a closet, in a Chinese house somewhat improved. Before all their goods had arrived, patients began to come, and there, among the packing cases, the first patient was treated. Two months later a small room, eight by twelve feet, was fitted up for a dispensary. Shelving was made for a small stock of drugs, and a case for instruments and supplies was made from a bed packing case. A work table, a sink, and a chair completed the outfit. There was no waiting room. The patients, sometimes numbering as many as thirty, con- tented themselves by standing about the small court, exposed alike to sunshine and rain. This one room served as consultation, dressing, and drug rooms combined. The hospital building itself was erected during the years 1905-1906. flVler- cersburg offerings paid for the ground on which the hospital is built., The work was most thoroughly supervised by Dr. Beam in every detail so that the result is a thor- oughly satisfactory, well-planned, and well-built structure, a credit to him who expend- ed so much thought and care upon its construction. Dr. Beamis place was taken by Dr. Adams in January of 1909, Mercersburg Academy assuming his support, which has continued from that day to the present time. The growth of the work done by the hospital is evidenced by the annual report of Dr. Adams last year to the Board of Foreign Missions. He reports: We had a total of eight hundred, twenty-five in-patients during the year. Our out-patient depart- 8 IIl1111 1111 111 11 1 1 ll 21111111 l11l1111J11111111 1111111111 111111111111111 5111 11 111111r1a11111 1 ii . 1 if 21211111 121