l5] l52

built of brick and composed of four large rooms? was in use.

During that same year a steam heating plant, at a cost of SQQZOOGOOg

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was installed in the girlsl dormitory. In December of l9209 Caro»

lina Hall, the second oldest buildingg was completely destroyed by

l5h

fire. This destruction complicated the already crowded situation at the college by forcing the boys to find lodgings in Greensboro homes and by causing some school assemblies to take place in St. Matthew”s Methodist Episcopal Church9 more than a mile from the campu50155 This acute problem may also account for the comment by a former student that about the year l92l-l9229 boys and girls were living in the same dormim tory.”6 The comment is further substantiated by the fact that in April of 1922 a new dormitory for girls was erected”7 and by the fact that in the following years l922=l9239 the original buildingmmused as a

girls'-dormitory since l8921é8was used as a boys" dormitoryal59 This l60

original building was still being used as a boys" dormitory in I926”

15]

Ibid., 1920, p. 9.

lEzGraduating class of the Senior High School at Bennett Col» legey The Bennettite, Vole IIg l269 p. 25. The history of the old ”pri= mary building“ (see footnote 66, above) is not known,

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1SlIbidu 19219 po 32.

N. C. Conferenceg flingtgig l9l99 p. 33.

155$towellg 23° 213.9 pp. l56=l62.

l 6 .

5 Miss Josephine Browng interviewg 20 June l969. Miss Brown came to the college as an eighthwgrader in l92l~l922 and graduated from high school there in l926.

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157N. C. Conferencey Minutesy l9229 p. 33. 158 159 160

See footnote 5h, abovea Bennett College, Annual Catalogueg l922, pp. 8=9. From a photography The Bennettiter9 p. ll.