Oberlin: the colony and the college1833-1883 . FIRST LADIES ladies hall (new). COLLEGE BUILDINGS. 219 In the simplicity of the first years, there was con-structed, between the dining-room and the sitting-room, a set of boxes, like large post-office boxes, ahundred or more, shut in with doors on each young man had his box assigned him, and init he deposited his bundle of linen for the laundryevery Monday morning, and found it there the nextSaturday evening. In the unfinished first story ofthis building, Mr. Finney preached, more or less, dur-ing his first summer in Oberlin. The
Oberlin: the colony and the college1833-1883 . FIRST LADIES ladies hall (new). COLLEGE BUILDINGS. 219 In the simplicity of the first years, there was con-structed, between the dining-room and the sitting-room, a set of boxes, like large post-office boxes, ahundred or more, shut in with doors on each young man had his box assigned him, and init he deposited his bundle of linen for the laundryevery Monday morning, and found it there the nextSaturday evening. In the unfinished first story ofthis building, Mr. Finney preached, more or less, dur-ing his first summer in Oberlin. The building stooduntil the completion of a second new Ladies was then divided into parts and removed, andnow exists in the form of five dwelling-houses invarious parts of the town. In May, 1835, Cincinnati Hall, already described,was erected, to receive the students from Lane. Itwas what might be called, in the dialect of the earlyimmigration, a college shanty. It was occupiedtwo or three years, was afterward used as a carpen-ters shop, and wholly disappea
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