. Review of reviews and world's work. lace was Fear God, and work. Withthe cele1)ration of her semi-centennial in 1875there was a revival of interest in her welfare,but the changing conditions of the South, withthe opening of other universities, made compe-tition sharper in a territory once largely herown and led to some decline in her merits, however, were commanding atten-tion and increasing respect, so that her tempo-rary loss in the Southern States was almost madegood by the gain she was making in other quar-ters, where her alumni had become known. Onher rolls were and are name
. Review of reviews and world's work. lace was Fear God, and work. Withthe cele1)ration of her semi-centennial in 1875there was a revival of interest in her welfare,but the changing conditions of the South, withthe opening of other universities, made compe-tition sharper in a territory once largely herown and led to some decline in her merits, however, were commanding atten-tion and increasing respect, so that her tempo-rary loss in the Southern States was almost madegood by the gain she was making in other quar-ters, where her alumni had become known. Onher rolls were and are names from almost everyState and from many foreign countries, whileshe has the unique distinction of being the onlyState institution with nearly half of its enroll-ment from other States. THE BURNING OF THE ROTUNDA. Hope was rapidly rising with growing successwhen a seeming disaster befell her. It was ona biight Sunday morning in October (27, 1895)that fire was discovered in the upper end of along building annexed to the rotunda. By noon. TUT. FAYEKWEATHER GYMNASIUM. this annex was in ruins and the rotunda gutted,while the adjacent wings were badly damagedby dynamite. Never did the unquenchable spiritof the university assert itself more gallantly thanin this crisis. On that Sunday afternoon, in anold-fashioned community where Sunday is care-fully obseived, the faculty met, arranged a pro-visional schedule, and reapportioned tiie remain-ing lecture-rooms. On Monday every class wasmet as usual, and duties were performed withoutpause or repining. Out of this seeming disasterthere came so much good, that, with the singleexception of irreparable library losses, it wouldbe difficult to find any respect in which the uni-versity did not profit by this fire. Within thenext three years about $450,000 was expendedin restoration, in equipment, and in adding thenew buildings that now complete the is not strange that this destructive fire,with the necessity it entailed of much outs
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