Oberlin: the colony and the college1833-1883 . ht feet by eighty, and three storieshigh, with a wing of two stories on each end extend-ing toward the south. The whole force of youngmen was turned out for three days to the raising ofthe building, and a great part of the work, withoutand within, was done by students. Stone for thefoundations was still too costly, and this large build-ing was erected upon oak pillars, six or seven feet inlength, cut from the bodies of large trees, and sunkinto the ground to the depth of the cellar that wasto be. Afterward the earth was gradually excavatedfrom und
Oberlin: the colony and the college1833-1883 . ht feet by eighty, and three storieshigh, with a wing of two stories on each end extend-ing toward the south. The whole force of youngmen was turned out for three days to the raising ofthe building, and a great part of the work, withoutand within, was done by students. Stone for thefoundations was still too costly, and this large build-ing was erected upon oak pillars, six or seven feet inlength, cut from the bodies of large trees, and sunkinto the ground to the depth of the cellar that wasto be. Afterward the earth was gradually excavatedfrom under the building, and the walls were put intheir place. The dining-room of this building ac-commodated, according to the early ideas of room,two hundred boarders, and there were rooms besidesfor about sixty students. When first completed, theupper story, and the west flights of stairs were givenup to young men, and the remainder of the build-ing, excepting certain rights in the dining-room andparlor, to the stewards family, and to young FIRST LADIES HALL.
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