This
lesson, I am pleased to be able to say, has been so thoroughly
learned and so faithfully handed down from year to year by one
set of students to another that often at the present time, when
the students march out of the chapel in the evening and their
dress is inspected, as it is every night, not one button is found
to be missing.
Chapter XII. Raising Money
When we opened our boarding department, we provided rooms in the
attic of Porter Hall, our first building, for a number of girls.
But the number of students, of both sexes, continued to increase.
We could find rooms outside the school grounds for many of the
young men, but the girls we did not care to expose in this way.
Very soon the problem of providing more rooms for the girls, as
well as a larger boarding department for all the students, grew
serious. As a result, we finally decided to undertake the
construction of a still larger building--a building that would
contain rooms for the girls and boarding accommodations for all.
After having had a preliminary sketch of the needed building
made, we found that it would cost about ten thousand dollars. We
had no money whatever with which to begin; still we decided to
give the needed building a name. We knew we could name it, even
though we were in doubt about our ability to secure the means for
its construction.
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