Catalog, 1915-1916 - Hoover Library

14 [1915
the "Building Era."
Whereas, up to 1886, it had erected but
three buildings, costing altogether less than $30,000; it has
since that time erected twenty buildings, costing Four Hundred
Thousand dollars, including equipment and apparatus.
Western Maryland College came in with the advent of
modern educationaf ideas, and, unhampered by traditions, it
has been free to build for the present and the future.
It led the way in that form of co-education which is rapidly
displacing both the absolute separation of the sexes and the
education of them in the same classes.
It was the first College
in the State to employ a Physical Director and to build a
Gymnasium, and its recognition of Libraries and Laboratories
as indispensable adjuncts to the class-room has resulted in
adequate and constantly growing provision in these directions.
The last undertaking of the College has been to raise an
Endowment Fund. The Trustees and the Alumni have had
committees prosecuting the work with gratifying
success, but
a much greater endowment must be raised before the hopes
and ambitions of its friends are realized.