University of Nashville - Garnet and Blue Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Omega Sorority. The main halls are used by the art department. The fourth, which has been used for art and as a cabinet for astronomical apparatus, has also now an occasional visitor in the person of the Sigma Tau Fraternity. These buildings were used as a military school just previous to the Civil War, and were used as army hospitals during a part of the War. But work was immediately resumed after the close of the War, the 'regu- lar university work being done. In 1856 Montgomery Bell be- queathed twenty thousand dollars for the purpose of creating Montgomery Bell Academy, in which gratuitous education was to be given twenty-live poor boys. This he made a part of the University, and placed his dona- tion in the hands of the trustees. The Academy was organized in 1867. The principal lived in the presid e nt's house, and the University buildings were used until, in 1882, the demands of the Normal College made it necessary for the boys to move, and the building now used was erected on the six-acre lot on the east of the campus. The gymnasium is the oldest building on the campus, it being the dining room of the president's house. The president's residence at this time furnished a home, not only for him- self, but also a home for many of the instructors. When, in 1875, Peabody College for Teachers was established, the need of a new resi- dence was imminent, and the pres- ent chancellor's residence was erect- ed, and the dining room of the old building was converted into that place of refreshments where dumb- bell hash is served with strength- test sauce. Winthrop Model School was erect- ed in 1890, a fitting monument to the memory of the man whose name it bearsg to whom not only Peabody College, but also every person who

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So in 1853 the new building was begun, which now constitutes the main building of the University. VVith it time has wrought many changes. Room 3 was used for a chapel until the students far outnumbered the dream of its builders. The six rooms of the right wing of the building were converted into e ' a chapel, and Room 3 into a class- room. The little room near the chapel, which is now known as the ante-room, or the faculty waiting room, was for more than thirty years the office of the University. Chem- ical and physical laboratories, togeth- er with a collection of Zoological and biological specimens, were all lo- cated in Cabinet Hall, now used exclusively as physical lecture room and laboratory. In 1854 Lindsley Hall was built for a dormitory and a home for the Aga- theridan and Erosophian Literary So- cieties, but which has been converted into a chemical laboratory, library, lecture rooms, and furnishes homes for no less than five literary societies, and a den for an equal number of fraternities and sororities. The chemical laboratory comprises all of the first floor to the left of the hall, the right half being used by the members of the foot-ball team for dormitory, store rooms, and bath rooms. The same space used by the chemical laboratory on the first floor is occupied by the library on the second floor. A chemical lec- ture room has been constructed by taking out the partitions of six of the rooms at the south end of the hall on the second floor. On the west side of the hall next to the chemical lab- oratory are the geological and biolog- ical laboratories, with a lecture room combined. On the third floor are now to be found, in addition to the origi- nal Agatheridan and Erosophian lit- erary halls, the Girls' Chapter fthe oldest of the girls' societiesb, the Al- pha Phi, the Adelphi, and the Zeta

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has been blessed by it, is debtor. Here, too, the library found its home until it outgrew the largest room in the building, and was removed to Lindsley Hall. Art, at first only a part of the kindergarten work here, is now one of the most important features of the University. In quick succession was then erected f - ga PMN the janitor's residence, which guards ' the main entrance of the campus and L 'W the Medical College. For almost half a century the Medical College had been in operation down on the old University campus, between College and Market Streets, but in 1895 moved to its new home, which is a modern, commodious building, facing the cam- pus on Market Street. The newest and most attractive building on the campus is the office in lx clent's office, the office of secretary and treasurer, faculty room, and Pea- body Literary Society hall on the sec- ond fioor. The same institution under one name and another has presided over the destinies of the once feeble settlement and now prosperous city whose name it bears, ever aid-ing in a multi- tude of ways, giving to it at one time Broad Street, the only respectable highway in the city. Tennessee has ever shown an in- terest in this institution, which was established ten years before the or- ganization of the State, and at the - first meeting of Tennessee Legislature trustees of the College were appoint- ed, and in recent years has contributed liberally to its support. To thousands of students all the poetry of youthful dreams will find its dwelling here forever. building, which contains the presi-