West Chester University - Serpentine Yearbook (West Chester, PA)

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HIGHLIGHTS CDF OUR HERITAGE 1870 1871 1873 Seventy-six years ago the corner stone of the vvomen's dormitory vvas laid with great ceremony. The State Normal School for the First District of pennsylvania vvas opened the following year. A newspaper reporter vvrote: We vvill but allude to the bed chambers of the pupils. A long hall divides the mole and female tier of rooms. In each of these apartments tvvo pupils are domiciled. It is their home .... I-Iere is every comfort: light and heat at the discretion of the occupants with useful boolcs and other necessary appointments to mal4e their leisure hours agreeable and beneficial .... only 'IQ vacancies novv remain in all that vast building. Q6

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1874 1878 1885 Women in long sweeping skirts and high-buttoned shoes at- tended classes. A student wrote home, HSoon we will eat breakfast and tea by gas light. Croquet was played on south campus. The North wing of the dormitory was built. The regulations of the Normal School read: Students are allowed to wall4 for exercise in vicinity ol the school, but no one is permitted to visit the town or otherwise absent himself without permission from the principal. Absence from the premises alter dusl4 is not permitted. New acquaintances outside ot the school must not be cultivated. Communications between two sexes for- bidden except when under school supervisionf, ln that year the dining room and chapel were added. Situated in what is now our Dining Room was the Old Chapel Q7