Western College - Multifaria Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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Alice Hill Byrne ALICE HILL BYRNE, PH. D. Wellesley College, A.B., 19083 Bryn Mawr College, A.M., Ph.D., 1918. As- sociate Professor of Latin and Greek, Western College, 1917-19203 Academic Dean, Professor of Greek, 1920-1941.

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MLET ME MIND MY OWN PERSONAL WORKQ KEEP MYSELF PURE AND ZEALOUS AND BELIEVINGQ LABORING TO DO GOD,S WILL IN THIS FRUITFUL VINEYARD OF YOUNG LIVES COM- MITTED TO MY CHARGE, AS MY ALLOTTED FIELD, UNTIL MY WORK BE DONE.,, . . . Thomas Arnold. THIS VOLUME OF THE MULTIFARIA IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED TO DEAN ALICE HILL BYRNE WHO RETIRES FROM ACTIVE WORK AT WESTERN COLLEGE, JUNE 1941. R., It fbcffx Y S, .rQ

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we -. vga 16.0 NVLJZX 'uw' ' 1 w ,gf ml ati' ibm A530555 Nt? RGZUNG RANGE Western college was dedicated and opened for entrance in the fall of 1855 so that the educational aims of Mt. Holyoke College for Women might be duplicated in the West. Miss Helen Peabody was the first president of the college. With her from Mt. Holyoke, where she had been associated, she brought some members of the senior class. Thus Western had a graduating class at the end of its first year. Western spirit may have been basically the same then as now, but rules certainly were not. In the early years, stu- dents were allowed to have relatives call on them only on Sunday afternoons. Even this lenient regulation was nearly abolished, however, when it was discovered that a Miami University student called to see six different cousins in the same afternoon. Peabody Hall, the only building on the campus at that time, was destroyed by fire twice in its early history. The first fire occurred in January of the year 1860. The aca- demic year was completed, however, in a private home in Oxford. The second Peabody Hall was erected in time for the fall opening in 1861. Ten years later Peabody again burned and was rebuilt by October, 1871 ,by the donations of alumnae, trustees, and friends of the college. THE LODGE