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p. 181 – Administration, Faculty, and Instruction in the Dodge Era

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tion he indeed earned and proudly bore. He, his brother, Dennis, and some of their associates were campus figures of song and story and many of them faithfully served the University until their well-earned retirement many years later.

The new wind of change brought various improvements to the buildings as well as the grounds. Exteriors were repainted, ventilators installed in classrooms after more than a decade of complaints by students and faculty, and bathrooms, a gift of James B. Colgate, were fitted up in East Hall. As a kind of finishing touch to his efforts, Professor Taylor, in the spring of 1887, planted ivy around Alumni, East and West Halls to hide their bare stones and mortar.

The Boarding Hall, a prominent feature of the old campus, was converted in 1874 into apartments for married theological students and their families since meals were no longer served there because most students now ate in “clubs”, i.e., fraternity or private groups, or boarded themselves in their rooms. Five years later fire destroyed the

Colgate Academy (Administration Building 1912-63), A1000-8 Folder 4, p181

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p. 101 – Administrative problems and incorporation, 1833-1846

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To supplant the Cottage Edifice, which the increased enrollment made too small for dining purposes, a new Boarding Hall was built in 1838 under the supervision of Steward Edmunds. It was 95 feet long, 42 feet wide, and two stories high. Its site “on the plain” where the present Huntington Gymnasium now is, was considered to have several advantages: students would get exercise by walking down the Hill for their meals; produce could be brought in easily from the Society’s farm; and access to the village for business purposes would be convenient. The Cottage Edifice was fitted up for classrooms.

Students themselves provided what today would be called janitor service. They not only kept their own rooms in order but also rang the bell for classes and services, swept and lighted the classrooms, and heated them with wood which they themselves sawed and chopped. A sense of cleanliness and neatness does not seem to have restrained some from throwing various objects out of dormitory windows. The faculty and Students Association found it necessary to make regulations prohibiting the practice, the Association even voting a fine of one shilling for throwing out water, especially mop water.

The Board and students took measures for fire protection, but no significant conflagrations occurred. In 1837 the Trustees directed the steward to take out a $10,000 fire insurance policy. Occupants of dormitories were required to furnish themselves with sheet-iron covered pans for carrying live coals to their stoves and were directed not to steal embers from classrooms. Each was supposed to have a pail full of water in his room in the evening before retiring for use in case of emergencies. One December Sunday in 1837 there were two small fires in West Hall. The first started in a chimney during the night, and burned into the ceiling by morning when it was put out. The second happened in the afternoon when most of the students were attending services in the village. When the alarm was given, the congregations in the Baptist,· Congregational, and Episcopal churches immediately broke up and raced for the Hill in sleighs, on horseback and on foot. Before many arrived the blaze, again in a chimney, had been extin­guished. Within a few days the Board asked that two bucket brigades and a property-recovering company be formed, but apparently these organizations were short-lived because within a few years new ones were established.

By 1840 the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution had

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Boarding Hall erected (p. 84)

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The Campus, a theorem print, c.1840, A1000-25, Theorem Print B, p84

Boarding Hall was erected on the site of the present Huntington Gymnasium, about a quarter of a mile down the Hill. All students ate there except those excused by the faculty. Some, no doubt, objected to the long walk, especially in winter, The chief cause of dissatisfaction, particularly in, the early 1840’s, seems to have been the food. Yet, in only one case of the many complaints reaching the faculty and Executive Committee is poor food specifically mentioned. In this instance, the authorities suspended a student for taking from the table a dish of meat which he considered offensive, instead of speaking to the Steward about it and then haranguing his fellow diners on, the subject when the Steward objected to his behavior. Students repeatedly asked permission, however, to board with private families, alleging as reasons, ill health or parental desire. Dr. Kendrick, who maintained that they had plenty of good food, thought that the real reasons were more often “Female society, and tea parties, and other village influences.” Usually these requests were refused. To have done otherwise would have meant keeping the Boarding Hall open. only for needy students.

Like most other American colleges of the period, the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution, had an elaborate set of Laws, which were adopted in 1840 to regulate student behavior in minute

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