University of Richmond - Web Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Greater Richmond College j'5qQT?CrrgRf 1898 women were admitted to the advanced classes of Rich- m-ond College. During the first SCF-S1'OUS'l'Ol11' women entered. fu Since that time the number has steadily increased until the en- rollment of women in 1909-10 is thirty. During the past decade interest in the higher education of women has steadily grown. and by 1907 it was evident that larger and better provision should be made by Richmond College for the higher education of young women. In that year began a campaign for 5500.000 with which to build a XN oman's College as a department of Richmond College, and also to strengthen the liberal arts college for men. Hy january, 1909, the half million dollars had been subscribed. Of this amount Sl50.000 was subscribed by the General Education lioard of New York. All this money was subscribed in live equal annual instalments, and was therefore to be collected at the rate of 3100.000 a year for tive years. Nearly 3200.000 has already been collected in cash, and payments are steadily coming in. ln the campaign for the half million dollars, the city of Richmond took a notable part and subscribed more than 3150.000 of the whole amount. During the present session the Trustees of Richmond College voted to accept certain otfers of land at XVesthampton, in the western suburbs of Richmond. and to begin building the new colleges for women a11d for men on that site within eighteen months. lly this arrangement the College received by gift 210 acres of lancl, and has acquired by purchase about seventy-four additional acres, making a total of not less than 284 acres which will be included in the new site. Lying near the center of this magnificent tract of land is a beautiful lake, covering between seven and eight acres, fed by never-failing brooks, which keep the water always fresh and sweet. About 120 acres of the property is cleared land and has been recently under cultivation: the remainder is in hard-wood forests, covered largely with magnificent white oaks and hickories. Landscape architects who have visited the new site pronounce it the most picturesque in Eastern Virginia and among the best college sites in the world. Observatory Hill, on the northern part of the new campus. towers nearly' 300 feet about the plain below the lake, At the rate at which land is now selling immediately adjoining the new college property, this gift to the College is worth S200.000. and its location insures its steady increase in value through the years to come. On this valuable and splendid site it is the purpose of the College to erect as speedily as practicable IfIl'l'f'll

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Richmond College Founded, 1832. Present enrollment, 348. Endownient, 533800.00000 'Value of campus and plant, fSl,OO0,000.00. Total assets, exclusive of new site, 3l,800,000.00. Entrance requirements, T4 Cztrnegie units. A nieinber of the Southern Association of Colleges an-il Preparatory Schools tonly twenty sucli accepted institutions in the Southj. Library of 17.000 volumes catalogued to the Dewey system. Law Libra1'y of 3,000 volumes. U11 C Degrees Olteredz li. A., ll. S.. LL. ll., M. A. Faculty of twenty-four, live Ph. Dfs. eight M. .-X.'s, four LL. l5.'s. one E. E. M. D., and two B. A.'s. Steam heated doriuatories for 200 students. Modern Laboratories: 4 in Chemistry, 3 in Physics. 1 in Biology and 2 in Drawing. Ten brick buildings on present campus. Thirty-two Q32il per cent. of students are from the city of Richmond and fourteen U43 per cent. are from outside of the State of Yirginia. Eurollinentz 288 in Arts and Sciences Qthirty wonienl. and sixty in Law School. Ten. College is co-educational at present and under Baptist control.

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buildings for a new college for men, for the Law College, and for the new XVoman's College. All the institutions will be under tl1e control of one Board of Trustees and one central administration. There will be one central library, one main group of laboratories, one central heating plant, one auditorium, one administration building, and all other general utilities will be held in common. The chief saving effected by tl1e proposed plan of co-ordination will be in the expense of instruction. The plans which have worked so successfully at Columbia University, Xdfestern Reserve University, Brown University, and other great American institutions will, with certain modifications, be put into effect at the Greater Richmond College. just as this issue of Tile Sjv1'dcr goes to press it is learned that the Com- mittee on New Buildings has engaged the services, as architects for tl1e Greater Richmond College, of Messrs. Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson, of Boston and New York. This is one of the most noted architectural Erms i11 the world. They won the competition over all comers for the new buildings at West Point. The head of the firm is the supervising architect of Princeton University, and is one of tl1e leading spirits in the American Institute of Architects. Wfith such expert adivisers, the public may be assured that the buildings of the new a11d greater college will be beautiful and harmonious. Students will be interested in knowing that it is the purpose of tl1e Trustees to provide an athletic held on the new site at an early day. The grandstand and stadium will be the first structures occupied by the College. W'ith good street car service already in operation, and with still better service promised for the 11CZl.l' future, we shall soon get accustomed to running out to the new College Park. lt has not yet been decided when the new building ca11 be opened. but it is understood that the Building Committee will use diligent effort to open tl1e college O11 the new site in September. 1912. Possibly a year longer may be required, but by 1913, at latest. we shall enter our new and permanent home on the heights above tl1e river and tl1e lake. In a recent public address at the College, President Boatwright stated that in some respects Greater Richmond College had already been attained. In the last Hfteen years, the endowment has increased Ioo per cent.g tl1e attendance of college students has increased 82 per cent., and, if the Richmond Academy, the sub-freshman department of the College, be included tl1e attendance of students has increased 179 per cent. The attendance for the present session is I3 per cent. in advance of any previous session. Wfith larger and better accommodations on the new site, Richmond College may be expected to grow more rapidly in the next few years tl1a11 ever before. It is confidently predicted that within live years after removal the attendance of students will be twice the present enrollment. Great opportunities lie before the new College, and it only remains for its Alumni and friends to le11d their l1elp and co-operation. 7lll'l'fl'ff