Morgan State University - Promethean Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Morgan's second phase of development began in 1890. when a generous endowment by Dr. Lyttleton F. Morgan made possible the offering of courses on the college level. The name of the school was changed to Morgan College in honor of the benefactor. In time, the build- ing at Edmondson Avenue became inadequate for the increased student enrollment and the expanded educational program. In 1917. a new site was purchased in the Govans section of the city, known as the Ivy Mills property and the Morton Estate. Many older alumni will remember nostalgically the dirt roads, peach trees and buildings of that early Morgan campus. With particular interest, they will remember Washington Hall which, if rumor be true, had been a tavern during the latter decad- es of the nineteenth century. Formor entrance to tho compu», tho ALUMNI MEMORIAL GATE. Within our grasp... are opportunities 10

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Morgan State College, during its eighty-eight years of existence, has undergone three major phases of physical and academic development. Originally chartered in 1867 and known as the Centenary Biblical Institute, the school offered in- struction somewhat irregularly in the lecture rooms of various Baltimore churches to young men de- sirous of becoming ministers. Two years later, the Institute obtained more suitable facilities and was formally opened at 44 East Saratoga Street. By the late I870's, the enrollment of students had increased to the extent that a larger build- ing had to be acquired. Dr. and Mrs. John F. Soucher gave the Institute a lot. located at the intersection of Fulton and Edmondson Avenues, upon which the first permanent structure was erected—a building now known as the Maryland Workshop for the Blind. During the next few years, other changes became necessary. Normal and academic courses were added to the cur- riculum. and young women were admitted to the institute as students.

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BALDWIN HALL, shortly after Its construction In 1928. CUMMINGS. WOOLFORD. and CARNEGIE HALLS and the dirt road leading past thorn, circa 1920. j or intelligent and creatiue participation 11