Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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Here is the very heart of the College. The WVabash tradition would have long been lost but for its enthusiastic retention by the administra- tion and faculty. It is with these men that Wabash Will move forward in the sixth quarter- century of her history. Mr. Harvey, Deans Hogge and Moore, and Dr. Bedrick take a mid-afternoon break in the Scarlet Inn.

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Hall the vertical band of windows were replaced by separate windows framed in the style of Center Hall, which had been built in 1857. The general lines were preserved, howeverf' Professor Forbes wrote, and the results could have been a great deal worse. The next step in the development of South Hall proved that the building could be very much worse look- ing indeed. The South Hall of this third phase is the depressing object which occupies the site at the present time, a shocking reminder of Victorian aesthetic judgement at its lowest ebb. This second remodeling of South Hall was executed in 1880, the four stories were remade into two, the gables remade, and the Roman portico added on the east side. This is the South Hall inherited by our own gener- ation. Professor Forbes was the campus crusader five years ago for undoing the mistakes of the intervening generations and restoring South Hall to the original style. It was his crusade that gave South Hall a stay of execution when plans for the new library were begun, had he not interrupted, the library would probably have been built on the site of South Hall. Re- storation, according to one architect who ex- amined South, is possible, but it would no doubt cost more than a new building. And so, during the past spring, South Hall was demolished. There was no other course, but there can be no doubt that it was with regrets that the college found it necessary to destroy this bit of living history in order to continue progress toward the future. f i?,r'F-f

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