Oberlin: the colony and the college1833-1883 . as completed in 1836—a brick building, a hun-dred and twelve feet by forty-two, and four storiesin height, containing a recitation-room in each cor-ner of the first story, and about ninety single roomsfor students in the different stories. These roomswere strikingly simple and uniform in their arrange-ments, being each sixteen feet by eight, with a doorat one end and a window at the other. In one cor-ner, near the door, was an open wardrobe, and in theother a narrow bedstead. In a corner by the win-dow was the stove and, the other side of the wind
Oberlin: the colony and the college1833-1883 . as completed in 1836—a brick building, a hun-dred and twelve feet by forty-two, and four storiesin height, containing a recitation-room in each cor-ner of the first story, and about ninety single roomsfor students in the different stories. These roomswere strikingly simple and uniform in their arrange-ments, being each sixteen feet by eight, with a doorat one end and a window at the other. In one cor-ner, near the door, was an open wardrobe, and in theother a narrow bedstead. In a corner by the win-dow was the stove and, the other side of the window,the table. This was the ultimate idea, for the time,of comfort and convenience in a college dormitory,not only at Oberlin, but in the country were the favored ones who could establish aclaim upon Tappan Hall. The building was in-tended primarily for the students of theology, andafter them for college students. The central towerwas originally in two sections, giving more thantwice the present height; but in the judgment of. COLLEGE CHAPEL. COLLEGE BUILDINGS. 221 some of the trustees it presented too much leverageto the strong west wind, and in Mr. Shipherds eyesit was not according to the simplicity of the pat-tern shown in the Mount. The upper section wastherefore removed. The money for the building,ten thousand dollars, was given by Arthur building was placed in the centre of the collegesquare, with the intention of having all other collegebuildings stand around the square, on different plan would not have been a bad one if the cen-tral building had been devoted wholly to public usesand not a dormitory building. Tappan Hall is nownearly fifty years old, and but for grave imperfec-tions of constitution it might serve successive gener-ations of students another fifty years. Many consul-tations have been held over it, all ending in one con-clusion—that it must soon be removed. The year 1835 marked a building era for the col-lege. Two dw
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