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Che Builbing of Deabg E?oII The first historic glimpse we have of old Deady Hall is in 1875, when the people of Eugene and Lane county assembled on the University grounds to hold their Fourth of July celebration. , The speakers stand was under the fine oaks on the north side, but the chief attraction was the new building that was being erected for the future State Univer- sity. The building and grounds were going to cost the people of Lane county $50,000, and the strenuous effort necessary to raise the required amount had de- veloped a deep interest and a feeling of ownership in the new institution they were helping to establish. So it was but natural that they assemble on the campus to celebrate their national holiday. 'There was but little to be seen, for only the foundation of the new building had been finished, but there were many young people there that day to whom that plain stone foundation would remain a type of the education they were soon to receive in the finished structure. The next historic glimpse of Deady Hall was more than a year afterward, when we find the external 'view of the building much as it is today, except that the dull red of the natural brick had not been covered by the gray stone finish of later years. But the county had found it hard to raise the $50,000, and there had been so many delays that when the University opened October 9, 1876, the first floor alone was ready for use. This floor was divided then, as now, by the long, straight hall, the two south rooms being devoted to the preparatory department in charge of Mrs. Spiller and her assistant, Miss Mary Stone. On the north side there were four small rooms. President johnson occupied the room on the west end where, in ad- dition to his duties as president, he taught all the Classes in Latin and Greek. The next of these rooms was given to the young ladies as a study and waiting room. just east of the ladies, reception room Prof. Bailey taught the college mathematics, while Professor Condon taught geology and natural history in the little room on the northeast corner. I So it will be seen that the college work of the University of Oregon in 1876 9
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