Ripon College - Crimson Yearbook (Ripon, WI)

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President Richard Cecil Hughes, A. M, D. D. 1901-

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BOARD OF EDITORS Thom » Owen» Chriitin Hargrave Halbert V. Brook» Earl L. Kin Blanche M. Cibton Frank L. Maigh Kulh Thompaon Winifred LaTourelle John S. Dcxier I

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GROWTH OF THE COLLEGE A table will clearly show the growth in 53 69 122 39 69 108 4» »5 126 - 30 1 3 43 40 57 97 1901 -1907. All Kipon students art watching with interest the growth of our College. Comparing last year with this we may see a decided growth along many lines, hut the upward tendency is far more marked when we look from the condition of five r six years ago to that of tot the number of students: 1902- 3................... 1903- 4................... 1904 5.................... 905-6......................... 30 1906-7.................... Adding, to the last total, art and music students we have the total of 241 for this year. Marked improvements have been made on the Campus. Five years ago Smith Hall (then Middle College) was in a decidedly dilapidated condition. Many generations of college lx ys had wrought havoc with the interior. Today it is one of the best men’s dormitories in the Middle West—a hall that the College is proud of. A similar transformation has taken place in Ingram Hall. Not long ago recitation rooms were scattered over the campus. When the student after a long journey finally did reach his class room he found nothing attractive about it. Today all class rooms are conveniently grouped together in Ingram Mall, and all are tastefully decorated. The departmental libraries also, instead of being scattered in various places on the campus, are now located together in Ingram Hall, just above the general Library. The partitions of old West Build- ing were, a short time ago. removed, and in the place of our old recitation rooms we have Commons Hall, a gift of the Alumni. ()n the two floors above arc con- veniently arranged rooms for men. Bartlett Hall was also improved last summer. 'Hus progress, marked though it is, gives way in importance to other im- provements which have too often failed to receive due recognition because they are less material and tangible. But it is in them that we find the truest progress. Cage Seven