65 upon the college bell: ”To proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound,“97

Even though living and teaching conditions were very crowded at

98

Bennett during Peelerls presidency, no buildings were added to the

four already in useaathe original building, used for girl boarders, 99 o . o a u , lOO , classes, administrative offices, and dining purposes; Carolina

Hall, used for male boarders, classes, chapel, and assembly purposes;10]

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the primary building; and the laundry building° In addition,

Kent Home was on the campuso The original Kent Home was completely

burned December l7, l909, but was replaced by a new and better building

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(still in use today) in time for the l9lO=l9ll sessiona In l909 the

college campus consisted of 30 acres.105 The addition of two buildings

97Isaiah 6l:l. Peeler explicitly states this as the aim of the school and gives the above quotation in the college Annual Catalogue, 1912, pp° 9-10.

98 a N. C. Conference, Minutes, l909, pt 26.

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Mrs, Brower.

100The Rev. Mr. Phelps,

IOers. Browera

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Existing in l899ml9000 See footnote 66,above. No explicit mention of the existence of this building was made, however. The aum thor assumes that the building still existed, perhaps later replaced with the “new grade building” used in l9l9. See Footnote 152, below.

103The continued existence of the laundry building is also as— sumedo See footnote 67, above. This assumption is supported, however, by the fact that the laundry was definitely still in existence in l9l5. See footnote l3l, belowo

104Woman's Home Missionary Society, Twentwainth Annual Report,

l909-l9lO, p. l26; Thirtieth Annual Report, l9lO—l9ll, p. 152.

105N. C. Conference, Minutes, l909, advertisement. See text re- lated to footnotes 36 and 87 in Chapter 110