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buildings. y HE first building of Transylvania University of which we have any record was a two-story brick lO which stood in the north end of the space now known as Gratz Park. It was probably destroy- ed by tire, for in 1817 a new building, a brick of three stories, was erected near the spot now oc- cupied by the music-stand in the lower end of the Park, which was at that time the University Cam- pus. This buiiding. named in honor of the Rev. Horace Holley, the third president of the University, was destroyed by tire on the 9th of Mav. 182a. Thus crippled by a severe blow the old college would not have recovered for many years had it not been for the benevolence of.two great citizens, Henry Clay and James Morrison. Colonel Morrison, a man of great wealth, having no children, desired to bequeath a large sum to one of Mr. Clay ' s sons. Mr. Clay, who was writing the will, refused to allow this to be done, and suggested to Colonel Morrison that he make the bequest to Transylvania University. Accordingly, by will dated December 21, 1820, he left $20,000 to establish in the University a professorship bearing his name and a residuary legacy, estimated at $40,000, to be applied to the erection of another edifice to be denominated Morrison College. After purchasing two-thirds of the present campus, the fund was used in the erection of the classic old building, which w-as opened with appropriate inauguration cere- monies on the fourth of November, 1833. 26
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