Ripon College - Crimson Yearbook (Ripon, WI)

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,2.1,'j4:'1Wf ,Haro ahj 1 I : ng,.a. ,ZFX Z WWI. 2 '.'. '.3'.','.'.'.'.'l.'1','. '42 'J '. 21 '1 '. '. 2 '. '88, Smith I-lall hliddle College, which is nun' culled Smith Hull, was huilt in the year eighteen sixty. At first it was used :is ll dormitory for men :ind women. Wlhen the schuol reopened after the wan' it was used :ls Il women's dormitory :md continued us such until the year nineteen hundred :md une. During this time the basement was furnished :is ll dining hull. ln the year nineteen hundred :md une the hull was entirely changed und refurnished as ll men's dormitory, :md culled Smith Hall in memory uf the late Elisha D. Smith of llenushzi. 7

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