Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-01-23

| high: the rear end is circular. giving "a
both the form Of an amphitheatre. The
building Is entered by two doors. each OF
| which leads 10 the chapel, library, ana
| society rooms.
The library and two society rooms are To-
Gated on the first floor. In the library
provision is made for AK least 1000 books,
and large and well-lighted reading-room.
| The chapel occupies the entire second floor.
| and seats comfortably about COO. 1t Is
! reached by two side stairs, at the head
| o. each Of which there Is n waiting-room.
| The plan OF the two dormitories is ex-
| actly the same. There are on the first floor
| OF each a suite Of rooms for a married
teacher. large wainting-room, an Office
! "a reading-room, nine rooms for students.
! two storerooms for trunks. and bath and
| toilet-rooms. on the second floor there are
| 2 suite Of rooms for q married teacher,
! fourteen room for students, trunk-rooms.
| and bath and toilet-rooms. The plan of
| the third floor is the same as the second,
| with the exception that provision Is only
| made for an unmarried teacher. giving
| two additional rooms for students. There
| are In each building twelve rooms finished
I'm the roof. which is constructed with six
gables. making these rooms equally as
good as those on the other floors. Each
Students room has attached TO 1t n large
clothes closet, and each building will ac-
cOmmodate one hundred students, with
two i'm each room.
The dining hall is a story and a half.
purposes The dining-room seats 200, and
has attached TO II large kitchen. with
two storeroOms and large serving-room
between the kitchen and dining-room. The
laundry. although under the same roof,
has no connection either with the kitchen
or dining-room. There are eight rooms
finished in the half-story over the kitchen
and laundry for the accommodation or
hired help. The large room over the din
ing-room is arranged for drying clothes.
A careful examination of the cuts Will
give a correct view of the arrangement
Of each building.
SCHOOLS COMPOSING UNIVERSITY.
The American Baptist Home Mission
Society. which is building the university.
commenced its work in Virginia in 1865.
The Rev. j. G. Binney, d. D., at one
time president Of Columbian College, be-
gan in November OF that year giving iin-
structiOn 10 colored men preparing for the
ministry. He was followed by the Rev. |
Nathaniel COlver. d. D., at one time Pro- |
fessor of Biblical Theology in Chicago |
Theological Seminary, who commenced |
work in Lumpkins jail July. 1867, and on |
account of failing health resigned in June. |
1868 The Rev. G. II. Corey ID. D., who is |
now the honored president of the school, |
began in 1865.
The school known at first as the Colver |
Institute then Richmond Institute, is now /
many years literary, as well as theOlOgi- |
cal. instruction was given, and women |
were admitted for some time into the lite
rary classes. In 1893 the literary work |
was discontinued, and the institution be
came as IL is now. strictly n theological |
seminary, the Theological Department of
the university.
Hartshorn Memorial College was char
tered i'm 1884, and founded in Richmond. |
for the purpose Of giving 10 women the
advantages of academic and college in
;tructiOn, together with such industrial |
md social training as will develop in them
strong. womanly characters. IL is to be
he Women's College of the university.
rhe Rev. Lyman y. Tent. d. D., has been |
he president of the college since il was
founded; the support of the college has
'ome chiefly from the American Baptist
Home Mission Society and the WOman's
Home Mission Society Of New England.
THE VIRGINIA SEMINARY.
The Virginia Seminary, located at
-ynchburg. was chartered in 1883, and was
commenced as a school which would be
exclusively owned supported. and man. |
ged by the colored people. They found,