Penn State University - La Vie Yearbook (University Park, PA)

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OLD CAMPUS VIEWS

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: l1 N7 - in E Bbe Story of Tiemt State N th- afternoon of the lifteenth tlay 0f ltlehrnary, 1859. a group of snme sixty 01' more young men huartletl sleighs in the little village of Spruce Creel: and were driven through the melting: snows of an early thaw to a point now marked on the map as State College. The low hanging sun, the slush, the mud. the shapeless masses of building material piled here and there it confused h ups, the rnugh, llllllllCtl aml. the west wingr of Old Main standing out against the evening sky manifestly incomplete, all these must have combined to give an impression of tlreariness and desolation t0 the eyes, and a sense of loneliness and discouragement t0 the hearts of that lirst group of State men. Nevertheless, they had come from the utternmst corners of the cmnmonwealth to take advantage nf the opportunities altered by this first state supported in- stitution of higher education: they were prepared to endure hravely, unllinchingly whatever hardships such a venture mitht involve: aml tn their courage and endurance, we of the present generation nwc our Alma Mater. aml the state of Pennsyl 'ania and the natinn, the blessing of the well lived and useful lives of the men whom she has brought forth. It was necessary for a time, heeause 0f the lllllTlllSllCtl condition of Old Main. to use as a dining mum and kitchen a rough hoard shanty so ingeniously constructed that it was im- possible In keep it warm in cold weather or tlry in wet. The period of this privatimt was. however. mercifully short antl quarters were soon remm'etl tn the permanent building where warmth was furnished by stores, and light during study hours by tallow candles, appor- tioned at the rate of six per week for each candlestick, one iron candlestick serving two men. The upper elassmen started work at six in the morning;r and continued until hve in the evening. one hour heing reserved at mitltlay for dinner. The underclassmen heingr of more tender 3' -ars were given the hour from six until seven for tlrecreationf, an opportunity which was tluuhtless used to its fullest extent. Chapel services were heltl twice a day, and the schedules werr ahmit equally divided hetween manual lahor, at this time farm work, aml the regular rnntine of lalnratnry and recitation. So far as locality was CtJIlCCl'IlCtl, the Farmers High School of Pennsylvania, as it was then talletl. came as near perfect isolation as the most ardent advocate of the small town 90119540 leltl tlseire. 'Zellefonte, twelve 01' more miles away was the nearest railway sta- tion, aml thence all mail, students and supplies, were staged over by Ben Beaver, who Figures prominently in the early t'aditinns 0f the school. On December 15, 1801. eleven men of the tifty-nine who almost three years before had TCQiSteretl in the regular course of the school, received their diplomas, and went out into the world as the lirst class to he graduated from State. The lives of these men, all useful and all successful, are the highest and most lilting trilmte lo the spirit which began with them and which has enntinnetl through all the succeeding generations uf State students. The outbreak of the Civil XVar. the subsequent merging of all Other activities in that Strllgt-Elc, and the desperate linaneial neetl of the newly founded school, seriously threatened its life. The founders, however, having seen so much of their itleal realized. were not to

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