LIBBAR5^ ^TATE Bloomsbur T]I/ "^ " LLEGE .Gvlvania LD4481.P63 6iui!ienH ^"^eeui^d s "^ ^ OF THE M^??ya. '€>-i^<^^d'UM^'tf^. 7' . cy- . '*- Fourteen acres of campus afford ample space athletic g'rounds, the four large brick buildings floor space of for lawns and and include a large and beautiful oak grove; while four shown and one-seventh to their different uses. The in the picture, acres, are containing a admirably adapted total length of the corridors in these buildings exceeds one-half a mile. Cut of Buildings and Ground. J^f/^ The school propsrlj- attracts much altention. vation of over 150 feet above the Susquehanna. this elevation is almost unrivalled. The IL is at an ele- The view from river, like a ribbon edges the plain on the south and disappears through a bold gorge three miles to the .southwest. Rising immediately beyond the river is a precipitous ridge four hundred feet high, backed by the majestic The town lies at the feet of the spectator. and water, field and forest, town and county, maiuifacture and agriculture, are combined in the varied scene. Bloonisburg is an attractive town in one of the mo.st beautiful regions of Penn.sylvania, has a population of about seven thousand and is easily accessible by the three largest railroads in the State the Delaware, L,ackawanna & Western, the Reading, and Catawis.sa mountain. Hill and plain, land : the Penii-sylvania. The town has the district .s}-stem of steam heating, a perfect public sewer .sj-stem, pure water from a mountain .stream, illuminating gas, and both the arc and incandescent electric lights. Thi'. Town oi* !i..ooMsm'Rr.. This beautiful audience room and hand.somely decorated lias been remodeled, refurnished. at great expense. It contains one thousand and twenty-six opera chairs, and when occa.sion de- mands, can be made to acou.stic properties are acconnnodate many more apparently perfect. people. The ThK ArUITORUM. "When you are fnniishir.g the mind, get the best. pays to spend time and money economize in his at an inferior school. many ciplined, never one must education h2 should remember that a few weeks spent at a good school under skillful instructors, than It If raonths spent in a school p.iorl\- is more profitable organized, badly dis- and unskillfuUy taught." Anon. A Class Room. ' ' A library may be regarded as the solemn chamber in which a man may take counsel with all that great and good and glorious amongst the before him." have been wise and men — that have gone Dawson, Address on opening of Birmingham Free Library. ThK LlIiRARV AND STUDV HAI.T.. A passenger elevator has recently been put into the dormitory at a cost of nearly four thousand dollars. five to thirty management grown persons at It is capable of lifting twenty- a time, and of an efficient operator. is under the constant Climbing stairs is now a thing of the past, and rooms on the top floors are .sought for in preference to those below. They are more comfortable, quieter and connnand a more extended view of the surrounding country. elevator was built by the famous Otis Brothers and hydraulic elevator operated by the duplex svstem pump and is The their best pressure tank New furniture has recently been placed in and spring inatresses have been provided all for all students' rooms, beds. Rooms are frequently inspected, and habits of neatness and order are inculcated. The beds cared for daily. of gentlemen are made, and their rooms (.)Til i\I Cl'M DlCNlTATK. No phase of our normal school life has been marked by more rapid change during the past few years than the athletic. Not only have all the leading branches of athletics taken a place among us, but they have come to stay. Permanent tennis, foot- and base- ball organizations have been effected an whole-some influence upon the life of the school has loeen marked. ball 1 their \-er\- Bask Bai.i, Oi.iu. " The cook makes our bodies them." ; the apothecan- only cobbles Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Kitchkn. " There is no teaching state or principle in he is you and you are he friendly chance or benefit. until tlie pupil which ; \-ou are there is ; is brought into the same a transfusion takes place a teaching ; ; and bv no un- bad coinjiany can he ever quite loose the ' Emerson. CoRRinoR, 1ST Floor, 275 ft. I.oNr, Chas. Kingsley in his Hypatia lets fall from the lips of the Chris- tian Bishop Synesius, on an occasion when the hunting procli\-ities of that old worthy were called into question, these words " The : hunt gives me endurance, promptness, courage, self-control, health and cheerfulness. can game ' ' Would of foot-ball ? No not the same words apply to our Ameriother athletic game with foot-ball in the direction of bringing And all is to be compared nuiscles into play. moreover, none of them except rowing, gives training .so valu- able in strengthening the great in\oluntar}- muscles, those of the heart and diaphragm. houT liAi.i. Team. ' ' Old and j-oung alike vie with each other ness to engage in this health giving exercise. abiding place on the tennis court. sparkling e3-e, the healthful glow, in their eager- Dull care has no One has but to note the the merry ring of voices to realize the value of this delightful sport." happy I value Science It Be — none can prize it more, gives ten thousand motives to adore it religion, as it ought ; to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee What time it lays the breast of nature bare, Discerns God's fingers working everywhere In the vast sweep of Finds And, Him all : : enil)racing laws, the real and the only cause ; in the light of clearest evidence. Perceives Him acting in the present tense. ABKAHA>r Coles. The Scikxck Room. " Now And good digestion wait on health on both ajipetite, ' ! Shakespeare. The Dining Room — 4s ft. x 100 ft. TRAINING ill this department aims to train the hand and mind^the mind through the hand. Dr. Belfield says "My own opinion is that an hour in the shop of a well-conducted manual training .school developes as much mental strength as the an hour devoted to Latin or Geometry." ; Mantai. ruAixiNi; Room. " Cycling is the judgment, the prince of sports. makes and strengthens lioth tlie It clears the lirain, trains eye quick and accurate, and steadies nerve and muscle, making them quick to respond to the decisions of the Hi^^rbcTt J, ' will. Smith, Prof. Colgate L'uiversity, Oswego, N. Y. BiCYCtE Club. " No little Wherein room so warm and bright, to read, wliereiii to write." Tennyson. THE PARLORS. "The fact till that When plwsical sins. not is, all breaches of the laws of health are this is generally seen, then, then, will the physical training of the the attention it desen-es." and perhaps young receive Herbert Spenser. all A Class in the Gymnasium. " The man with and a fourth-class not a strong have man staid like a first-class brain, and a third-class stomach, liver is ; beginning to find out that he Bismarck or Gladstnne likely to be written is really and that while by sensible exercise he might by the time, or soon till seventy, his obituary after the time he is is fifty." W'm. Bi.aikie. Bovs Gymnasium Ci.ass. " Lastly came Winter, cloathed all in fr'ze, Chattering his teeth for cold that did him W'hils't chill on his hoary b^ard his breath did freese." Spenser. mj^^