Thursday; September 2, 137 Penn Stat Land Grant Att Opened College . The FarmorS' ! High; School: , baptis mai name of he Penn - State College, Was a pioneer In agricultural educa tion; its 'roots goi back 'as' early as 1850. Its deviiimment; if not its very existence, is due to its re-founding by the- acceptance' of ,the, Morrill Act, signed bY Gbvermir. Andrew. Gregg. Mottling Tike this at '•COLONIA • 115WNITTANYAVE. ia#MaestChthßesideare I t . ;"4tkive's -, • fronnillgatetv (aim.% / yact, o af mi • Pow • . ... , , • Welcome, Old. Friends and New! • • . it- Stat e o ege -Dry C: -leaning . Works . We are now able to serve you at two places with even better than our former excellent service. • Cash and Carry . . . ' . . 113 Pugh St Call'and Deliier - . .. . .. .. . Dial 2331 ' "THE'ONLY DRY CLEANING PLANT IN OR AROUND STATE COLLEGE" Black Ties $1.01:l• of Welcome --..-. Class '..' ..'of .'7.1941- Stared As Farmers' High School In Agriculture Back In 1850 . Curtin, April 1, 1863, pledging the "faith of the State to curry the same into effeet.i" The first quarter of a century was marked by a struggle to hold the Land Grant, and by drifting and ex 'periment. hi educational 'aims. Six. presidents - in twMity-tiree years were scarcely compatible with continuity of 'plan or. purpose, Dr. Evan Pugh, a, man 'of rare vision, trained by six years' of'study in the;universities of• Germany, France, and England, the fitapygreat president; died , at the ear ly age 'of- 30, just as he was laying the foundations of Penn State. His successor, Dr: William H. Allen, for merly and later president of Girard College, served two years with no marked activities in disposing . of the Land Scrip. Only one course, agriculture, was offered up to 1860, but the settlement of the entire Land Grant upon` the College by the Act of 1867, led Presi dent John Fraser and the trustees to a'"reorganization'? in which engineer ing 'was to be taught, agriculture and the arts expanded. The program was too ambitious and .too expensive to. carry , out: The;trustevs voted a "de- Rekulation R.OTC. S T A RK- ii-ARPER .., offi ~ • • cialiy .4 fiispected , k; A:uthortzeiiAtosh4ipare! , "NEXT TO THE MOVIES" e FOV''.:HatolleritiMeAls . ,. at • Reasonable p:::i:.• - ..,...:Vak6-F.REVS". : ,.Y.04-. Dinnin g Headquarters : thi - :5.... - - - iY, Year -.: .. , - • .., coMfikte•..Fo.o4•4.id - Fountaliz Service II College President, organization" and called Dr. ThomaS Burrowes to salvage the College and rest Ore it to its original• purpOses. His personal influence ateintried, v ,the . tide of discouragement at home. and opposition abroad (in which .the so called Model Experiment •F arms largely figured), but he died in,offica after but three years of service. Dr. James Calder, a classically trained, classically minded executive, succeed ed. The College greW in numbers, largely due to preparatory students, to music and art pupils. Three courses, agriculture, classical, and entitle, were offered, and women' stu dents were admitted on equal terms in 1871. , An unfortunate interregnum in 1880-1881 under President Shortlidge re-opened the Rood gates of criticism and personal recrimination. Studen were few and in open rebellion. Fac ulty, trustees, and legislative. investi gations followed—the . Pennsylvania State College was passing through its, darkest days, However, a new leader, the. second gieat president, Dr. George W.-Ath erton, had been found, destined to serve nearly a quarter of, a century: He received an institution of one FRED'S 138 SOUTH ALLEN STREET TRE PI•;NN STATE COLLEGIAN building,; Old Main, completed in De ! dember, 1863, .a...massive but forbid (ling.:structure,. with a dark, almost Prisomlike interior, a.student body,so depleted in numbers that it scarcely &weeded the faculty, and with a rep utatien .and• name over the State (however"; unjust) of an educational failure ..and - liot • entitled to :the pro ceeds:of the Land 'Grant. With rare 'detertnination .and insight; he placed .the Work:. of Ahe•institution squarely upon ',its . charter, won .the .people. of the Connnonviealth: to its .support, found, in'. 'Governor James A. Beaver, a life-long: friend of the. College, a towers of :Strength and enthusiasm. ;' A roirainping of Old Main was be gun, over-crowded 'departments began their :exodus to aew buildings. The schools Vere organized 'in 1896, dor mitories Were :erected, a UniVersity Inn,' and .the first buildings by pri irate donors, the, Carnegie Library and Schwab Auditorium. Agriculture began its. Modern development with a building,Program and expansion of facilities: under,,the aegis of The Al lied' Agricultural Societies in 1900. Engineering, owes its first adequate hoysing•to Governor Pattisoli who be- Came `a warm .friend of . Penn State during_;'his apecnd administration, ' while:MOst caustic in. his denuncia tions in his vetees of the bills of 1883 Thus ;the. College. groped its way cluring the first quarter century. ' It Hotel Markland Noted for Good Food and Service Sail:a straight course on the ( GREEN ROOM'S NEW SHIP BAR "found itself" under . President Ather ton during the second quarter cen tury..lts rapid development had .come during the third quarter century, and peculiarly so in the last live years. .Presidents Sparks, Thomas, an d Hetzel are three different types of ex ecutives. Under Dr. Sparks the stu dent body grew almost phenomenally, popularizing and extension activities were greatly increased, the Summer School established on a new basis in' 1910. Comprehensive building plans were outlined, and genuine additions to the plant made. Afore adequate support was provided in which the active cooperation of Governor Tener should be noted. President Sparks bore a huge burden during the Great War—a burden which sapped his strength to the breaking point, lead ing to' his retirement in 1920. Dr. Sparks handed over to President John Martin 'Thomas an institution with 370 on the faculty and a resident stu dent body of 4,010. The service of Dr. Thomas of four years was marked bY plans for a greater Penn State, a better physical COLONIAL HOTEL 113 W.N Monti Avo.Ov° STATE COLLEGE.PA: HOSPITALITY OF' HOME COMFORTS OFAN INN T. All Rooms,ficinnngtVattr o r Dith SPECIAL WEIN STUDENT RATXS CLAREHq• R.SyrrzEß,Ar 7 - plant, more adequate legislative sup-which were dedicated as, part of the port. The College campaign to raise Seventy-Fifth Celebration tell sortie s2,ooo,ooo for welfare buildings was thing of the external story: Recrea organized and vigorously carried on. tion Hall, Engineering Building, Min- September 24, 1026, Dr. Ralph Dorn eral Industries, Old Main, Freer and Hetzel was called to the presidency Grange Dormitories, Liberal Arts, and a new Penn State began rapidly and Chemistry units ,Power Plant, to realize itself. An adequate campus Botany Building, Hospital Service plan and the following new buildings Building, and other permanent units. WELCOME TO PENN STATE! ... 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