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Senior Class Gifts - 1910's

1910

• Clock in Carnegie Library.
• Student loan fund.
• Portrait of Joseph M. Willard, mathematics professor.
• Alumni memorial scholarship and loan fund.
• Planted class ivy at commencement on Old Engineering Building.

1911

• Boulder (granite) at Open Air Theatre, front campus, marking Old Main quarry site.
• Baseball grandstand at "new" Beaver Field.
• Bronze busts: Fred Lewis Pattee, American Literature professor; Edwin Erle Sparks, eighth president; A. Howry Espenshade, English professor, registrar; Evan Pugh, first president.
• Planted class ivy at commencement on Schwab Auditorium.

1912

• Wireless tower and radio station.
• Infirmary fund.
• Class memorial loan fund.
• Planted class ivy at commencement on Carnegie Building.

1913

• Old Main stone terrace and steps.
• Class memorial loan fund.

1914

• Hospital building fund.
• Drinking fountain at Old Willow, Allen Street mall.
• Pipe organ (first) in Schwab Auditorium.
• Concert harp in Arts I Recital Hall.

1915

• Stone retaining wall on front campus.
• Sun dial in front of Old Main.
• Stone benches at HUB.

1916

• Bronze lamp posts in front of Schwab Auditorium.
• Memorial gateway at main entrance.
• Memorial scholarship fund.

1917

• President's chair (sedile) for commencement in auditorium.
• Student loan fund.

1918

• War Bonds.
• Gateway at Pugh Street entrance with the class of 1917.

1919

• Greek (stone) bench in Open Air Theatre
• Class memorial fund.

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