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The new girls' dormitory erected in April, l922, later called

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the Robert E. Jones Hall, was a large, threeastory brick building with accommodations for l30 students and for women teachers. Its cost ,. l62 4. “ a“ , 1K63 . . ‘ .,. was $809000.00. Also completed in Apiil. 1922, was a new refetu toryg later named Wilbur F. Steele Hall. It was a oneeetory brick

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building with a seating capacity of 300,

and was built ”in the

place of the old building destroyed by fire last December.“166

Aside from Kent Home, then, the l922ul923 campus consisted of

seven buildings.167 Three brick buildings. the original building, the

new girls” dormitory, and the new refectory, have been mentioned. A

fourth was the junior high school building. From its description

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(bricky four Classrooms). one concludes that it was the ”new grade

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school“ of l9l9. 0f the three wooden buildings, one was the

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president’s home. All of these buildings had electric lights,

“Bennett College for Women, Circular 2: Information, l926,

p. 8. 162‘Bennett College, Annual Catalogue. l927. pp. 9. l8. 163N.,C. Conference, Minuteg. l922. p. 33.

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I65Bennett College. Annual Catalogue. l922y p. 7.

I66N. C. Conference, flinuteig l92l, p. 33. This comment does not appear to refer to the location of the refectory.

167Bennett College. flflflflil Catalggge. 1922, pp. 8u9. ”81219, p. 9. 169See footnotes lSl, l529 above.

l7OBennett College, Annual EiEElESEEfl l927, pp° 8u9.