The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-06
Girls Building at WaShburn
VIII Cost S150,O00.
Bids VIII Be Accepted Within
Next Ten Days.
IT WILL ACCOMMODATE 900
Donation of $4,000 Made by
Late O. L. Benton.
To Be Located on Highest
Ground on Campus.

Bids on a new dormitory for girls
at Washburn college will be accepted
within ten days.
This announcement was made this
morning at the Washburn Day exer-
cises in the college chapel by David
Neiswanger. an alumnus of the class
of 1914, and a member of the board
of trustees.
The plans for the building which
are the work of Ralph E. Scanned.
an architect who holds a faculty posi-
ton in the engineering department,
are being presented to the board of
trustees this afternon for approval or
revision.
Accommodations for 800.
This plan provides accommodation
for 800 girls. The building would
cost approximately $150,000, and
would be four stories high. In addi-
tion to 100 sleeping rooms for stu
dents. it would have a large dining
hall, several reception rooms for the
entertainment of guests, and halls for
the use of literary societies and other
student organizations.
This dormitory. which Neiswanger
said would be the finest in Kansas.
is made possible largely by the dona-
Benton, a banker of Oberlin, Kan.
former student of Washburn and a
trustee of the college at the time of
his sudden death last June. 1t will be
named in his honor.
The remainder of the cost of the
building will be provided out of the
funds which the college hopes to get
in its present campaign for $500, 900.
Located on Campus.
1t is to be located on the highest
ground of. the campus, a pine-covered
knoll west of the observatory and
south of the athletic field. The rooms
will have an outlook over the beauti-
full college meadow, the winding
course of the Shunganunga and Bur-
nett's mound in the distance one of
the loveliest prospects in Kansas.
Celebrate 5Tth Birthday.
The announcement of plans for an
early completion of this undertaking
was the high point in a program fun
of promise for the future of the col
lege and inspiration to the students.
The entire day is being given to the
celebration of the fifty-seventh birth
day of the institution. The students
are obeying President p. p. Womers
orders to forget their worries studies
and responsibilities and to spend the
day in merry-making and jollification.
The closing scene of the festivities will
be banquet at the Elks club at
o'clock tinght.
Speakers at the morning exercises
were all graduates of the college. In
their addresses, and in the stirring in
vocation by DR.. d. NJ. Fisk. the grand
old man of the college. the high moral
and ethical ideals of the college were
stressed. Robert Stone, '89, reviewed
Washburn history and expressed his
own ideal of the college-one in which
high standards of character and learn
ing should predominate over every
other consideration.
L. A. HaIbert Speaks.
Leroy A. Halbert. 81, a noted social
welfare worker, spoke of the interest
which the community has in the de-
veloprnent of college-trained leaders
1t is important for the success of the
training. Halbert said, but it is even
more important that the community.
for its own welfare, have comm ercial
leaders with the right kind of prepa-
ration.
L. Cady Hodge. '01, former presi-
ton. told the undergraduates that the
world expected their generation to
carry on the task cf uniting humanity
in a world civilization.
The two glee clubs of the college
each sang several songs. the Mems
club, under the leadership of Prof.
Ted Post, and the Girls club under
the leadership of Prof. Albert Ha b.
erstro. Professor Eaberstro sang a
solo. taking the place of Dorothy
Belyea Post. who was unable to ap-
pear. Prof. Frank J. Kolbaba played