Shepherd University - Cohongoroota Yearbook (Shepherdstown, WV)

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At first, however, it seemed to be on the decline, having in 1880 an attend- ance of only 55, but this was due largely to the fact that it was given very scant support by the State. From 1882 to 1885 the faculty of Shepherd College was composed of but two members, Prof. D. D. Pendleton and Miss Mary E. Allen, but at present it consists of a principal and nine assistants. ITS BUILDINGS Shepherd College now has three buildings in which to do its work. The oldest of these is the original Shepherd College, which was trans- ferred by a perpetual lease to the Board of Trustees by Shepherd Brooks, of Boston, when the school Was first organized. This Board gave the build- ing over to the State to be used for normal school purposes. From that time until 1897, when a new bnilding was erected just north of it, the College was the home of the school. The building contains six large rooms, two of which are now used by the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations, two by the model school, and two by the Depart- ment of Music. Adjoining the above is what was until recently known as Shepherd College Hall. It was erected in 1889 by the citizens of Shepherdstown and placed at the disposal of the school, by which it was used for a place for holding commencement exercises, lectures, receptions, and chapel services. It is now headquarters for the Cadet Corps and has been desig- nated The Armory. The new Shepherd College building, erected in 1897, was totally de- stroyed by fire in the spring of 1901, and another building was put in it place. This second building, a cut of which appears elsewhere in this number of The Picket, was completed and first occupied in the spring of 1904. This building is one of the best of its kind within the State. It is thoroughly modern and well appointed. The basement contains a large gymnasium, lavatories, toilet rooms, and several rooms adapted to labor- atory uses. The first fioor contains the principal's oflice, general office, study hall, library, cloak rooms, and five commodious class rooms. On the second floor are found a fine auditorium, with a seating capacity of about seven hundred, two literary society halls, three class rooms, cloak rooms, etc. This building, as also the others, is heated with hot water. The boiler house is a short distance from the main structure. Water for I2

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the Trustees of the College and the State Superintendent of Free Schools the Board of Regents for the government of Shepherd College Normal School.-Acts 1873, Chap. 31. Before the school could be organized under this amended Act, the Legislature revised the whole school law and amended Section 93 of that law so as to annul the Act apprhved February 14, 1793 for the establishing of a branch Normal School in Shepherd College, and placed said school again under the jurisdiction and control of the Regents of the State Normal School, in the same manner and to the same extent as the State Normal School at Marshall College. -Acts I873, Chap, 123. This repeal of the former Act was doubtless done unintentionally and was not noticed until the publication of the revised school law. Thus, it will be seen that the Acts, establishing a branch of the State Normal School in Shepherd College, bears date April 12, 1873. In june, 1873, the Normal School Regents met in Shepherd College building for the purpose of putting into force this Act, and then made an order establishing said branch of the Normal School nunc qro tune, that is to say, to make the order date back to September, 1872, and gave an order for the payment of the same amount of money that each of the other schools received for that year. At this same meeting, the Board formulated its first course of study and prescribed the conditions for graduating the pupils who complete the course of study Hence, our Normal School dates its beginning from September, 1872. Of the salaries received for the year 1872-73, the Principal made a present of 5800 to the Executive Committee, who used it in taking out the middle partition in the large room upstairs, removing the double floors and railings in the large room below, fitting up the room with desks and blackboards and making other arrangements for the large number of pupils that entered in September, 1873. It is a singular, but Well known fact in the history of this Normal School, that no appropriations for repairs or improvements in its buildings were made by the State until 1885. Thus for thirteen years all the repairs and improvements in the buildings and grounds were made at the expense of the teachers employed therein during this period. The Regents made their first appointment of teachers for this school in june, 1873, and named the following: Professor Joseph McMurran, Principal, and Professors D. D. Pendleton and S. S. Smeltzer and Mrs. Lilie P. Lee, assistants. Since that time, Shepherd College has steadily grown in usefulness so that it is now one of the leading institutions of its kind within the State. II

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