Rutgers University - Scarlet Letter Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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now stands, to see Rutgers defeat Princeton in the first intercollegiate game of football. The intense rivalry which ensued was one of the causes of the famous Cannon War with Old Nassau in 1875-part of the rich tradition of both institutions. The Targum had begun publication in 1867, in time to record these great events. After the turn of the century the growth of Rutgers was rapid. Dormitories were added at intervals to develop the facilities now extant, Engineering, Chemistry, Ceramics, Van Dyck, and other classroom buildings were erected, all these after the donation of Neilson Campus in 1906. Students began attending classes at the Summer Session two years before the I501Il'1 Anniversary Celebration of 1916. Two years after this event New Jersey College for Women was established by the trustees as a part of what had become the State University of New Jersey in IIQI7. With the addition of the School of Education, the college became large enough to be termed a university, and this it was in IQ24. The School of Pharmacy in Newark and the School of Chemistry were included, and in 1931 the new gymnasium was erected after fire gutted the Ballantine Gymnasium. To extend its influence as a state institu- tion of education, Rutgers received the branch of extension and eve- ning study included under the name of University College in 1934, in the third year of Dr. Robert C. Clothier's presidency. The most recent acquisition has been the extensive River Road Campus. It has been developed into intramural facilities centered by the million-dollar stadium. The dedication of that plant is still fresh in the minds of Rutgers meng not soon to beiforgotten is the memorable defeat of Princeton's football team there on November 5, 1938, a feat not accomplished since the first game of football in 1869. PICIURED AT THE LBF1' are more recent campus scenes. The Quadrangle Crop, was built in this century. The gates fcenter lefty lead to Queen's Campus. Winants is shown Ccenter riglzfj through an arch of the Chapel. The cannon, on Queen's Campus, is the consolation cannon given in 1875. The Library flower leftj ,and Bishop flower rightj will bring back fond memories to Rutgers men. 9

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OLD QUEEN'S THE RUMBLINGS of impending war were distant but audible to the good citizens of New Brunswick in the year 1809. Yet to a group of earnest men they went unheard, for a matter of much more concern was the laying of the cornerstone of Old Queen's on june twenty-third. John McComb was the foremost architect of the time. He had built several churches in New York which are unexcelled even today. He designed New York's City Hall, with which Queen's has many features in common. Both are considered outstanding examples of Georgian-Colonial architecture. Upon acceptance of McComb's plan by the committee in 1809, work was begun on Queen's. Stone was chosen instead of brick for the sake of economy, and still the cost of construction exceeded expectations. The plans were twice altered to eliminate ornament and detail and to reduce the building to the plain, yet gracious, lines which every Rutgers man holds as a treasured memory. The building, completed, was destined to be the heart and symbol of a great college. The dignity of age-and the tradition that goes inseparably with it all-makes Old Queen's the symbol of Rutgers. The ancient stones of her hallowed walls have been witness 'to the history of just one hundred and thirty years. Incidents, such as the birth of a boy, Wil- liam Mabon, in 1822, within the walls from whose shelter he walked in 1840 as a graduate, the burial of a man in the well on Queen's campus, the stealthy purloining of the clappers of the bell of Queen's -which even now are the prized andirons of a fraternity house-all these cast a mantle of legend and semi-mystery over her. My heart clings closer than the ivy, ds life runs out its fleeting span To the stately, ancient 'walls Of her hallowed, classic halls . . . IO