Student building at Ohio state university and Ohio union . mpelled to kill time in the hallways. There are no waiting, smoking, or writing betweenrooms for the men, nor offices for the committees or student publications. Recitations. These are some of the disadvantages resulting from the lack of a student building, whichwill now be remedied. ^^isixnT^ tii the (Biitixt itc ^ttnxt tJbe ^mlitmg* . The movement to secure a Student Building to supply this evident need started as earlyas 1892, when an effort was made by the Ohio State Y. M. C. A. to erect such a building for Efforts ofthemselves; bu
Student building at Ohio state university and Ohio union . mpelled to kill time in the hallways. There are no waiting, smoking, or writing betweenrooms for the men, nor offices for the committees or student publications. Recitations. These are some of the disadvantages resulting from the lack of a student building, whichwill now be remedied. ^^isixnT^ tii the (Biitixt itc ^ttnxt tJbe ^mlitmg* . The movement to secure a Student Building to supply this evident need started as earlyas 1892, when an effort was made by the Ohio State Y. M. C. A. to erect such a building for Efforts ofthemselves; but their effort was spent the same year, reviving again in 1898, only to meet with a ^- ^- ^- ^•similar fate. Seven years later the increasing demand for such a center for the students again inducedthe Y. M. C. A. to attempt the proposition, and an organized effort was made to secure thenecessary funds by subscription from the students, faculty, alumni. City Board of Trade,friends of the University and from any other source possible. r h -3«*^^^ .-. lya .,»? Restaurant. THE STUDENT BUILDING At first the problem seemed to be solved. The Columbus Board of Trade promised to raise$100,000, the students and faculty pledged $19,000 and the building seemed a probability. Butactive work on the plan was delayed so long that the time limit to the pledges of the studentsand faculty expired, and the project began to lose prominence. In the fall of 1907 the matter was again taken up, and a final attempt determined uponby a general meeting of influential men of the student body. A plan was finally conceived bywhich the necessary funds could be secured from the State by the students, and an organizedeffort was started to secure an appropriation from the Legislature. The entire student bodyco-operated in the executive part of the plan by writing to their friends at home and also tothe Legislators from their districts, explaining the need of a Student Building at Ohio State,and asldng fo
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