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SETTING for the story of the ninety-second year of the college atop the Hill is the one-hundred acre campus, lying at the north-west limits of Liberty and including the highest terrain in the city. Truly one of the most beautiful campuses in the Mid- dle West, William Jewell boasts of its brick buildings and points with pride to its modern equipment. Southern most of the buildings is Marston Hall which stands at the end ofthe walk connecting all campus buildings. Directly north of this science building, facing west, rise the majestic columns ofjewell Hall, oldest building on the Hill. Further northward, Old Ely Hall and the Carnegie Library stand facing each other. Old Ely, once a boys' dormitory, now houses the newly-created Public Relations department, with storerooms in the two upper floors. Then the quadrangle, cut cat-a-cornered by the sun-dial walk, forming a patio for Gano chapel, the much-used stone bench in the shape ofa great stretches on the east side of this administration building. Across the graveled drive stands Brown gymnasium, behind which lie the twenty- acre football Held and cinder track, the tennis courts, the comparatively new green- house, and the power plant and master heating system. Winding around the Wogded ifeljgzl-lllillgig hjziillilglrolal clepgiltegy ipqlopated, is the wyalk which leads to the two col- is a Shortwalk f M I - y l a , only a stone s throw from the gymnasium, rom e rose Hall, which stands at the very northern tip ofthe college Campus. Back to the heart of the campus, two stone pillars rise at the foot of the Hill, gl a key ti fully cl' portals, avenue after cc by the project destine up of t 1857, t success cession ately ar laid a t erate fr and Cc heat of classes, trying'
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the Hill is including n the Mid- ride to its end of the ing, facing ll. Further Old Ely, epartment, cornered by ench in the S A iX' 9 '-' 50 lam ' A if iiii '.fi A 1 3 l i 2 l Hill, guarding the domain of the Acropolis. These ENTRANCE PILLARS rise as I a key to the entire Hill. Set up long after jewell's most trying years had been success- fully closed, they are no less a part of her interesting history. Once through these portals, the way is steep, the climb is hard, past white stone benches, through an avenue of trees and flowering shrubs, to the top of the Hill, where was marked in 1849, after considerable discussion and debate, the site of William Jewell College, so named by the Baptists of the state because of the deep interest of Dr. William Jewell in the project, and his generosity toward the erection of such an institution. Clouds were destined to cover the sun which had shone so brightly in the year following the setting .i up of the College, and in 1885 the doors closed for two years. But by the spring of i 1857, the College was again looking upward, and thence embarked on one ofthe most successful periods of its entire existence. Not for long, for the first rumblings of se- ng. the twenty- new green- the wooded the two col- gymnasium, fthe college foot of the cession and revolution were heard, and by june, 1861, the entire nation was passion- ately aroused and the Civil War was a reality. Across William jewell's campus was laid a trench, and where sumac now reddens in the early autumn, Union and Confed- erate forces skirmished. Where students sit in varnished chairs, Confederate troops find Confederate cavalry were quartered in the years of that war. Closed during the heat of the war, the college was not reopened until almost four years later, although classes, small though they were, were carried on to a certain extent even during this trying time.
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