THE GUILFORDIAN
THROUGH this gateway
many a youth has en
tered a richer life. A life that
lies beyoncl the home and
high school horizon. The
college unfolds a wider world
to the growing mind. With
the microscope we look at
things too small for the eye
to see, with the telescope we
look farther than the eye can
see, through history and phi
losophy we find new answers
to the problems of life.
Come! Enter this Gate! It
Guilford College, the oldest co-educational institution in
the South, is well situated, both for convenience and for
natural beauty. One mile from the railroad and six miles
THE oldest building on the campus was-completed in 1837
and is known as Founders Hall. It was substantially
-remodeled and enlarged in 1908 so that it is now a c >llllllO
dious girls dormitory
with a dining hall in
which the men of the
college, the Founders
girls and several mem
bers of the faculty,
have their meals.
Here in many re
spects the life of the
college centers. It is
the common meeting
ground of the stu
dents after meals and
many are the old time
socials that its parlors
have witnessed 011 Sat
urday evenings. The
monthly class meet
ings held here are gay
times for the students.
The Philomathean
and Zatasian Literary
Societies with their
well-furnished an d
1 • • n i i_ _ n _ •
dignified halls give .
valuable training to tlie girls. Here also is the Y. W. C. A.
hall, and the room in which the college weekly paper is
edited. The reception room of the matron, Miss Benbow,
has for many years afforded the members of the faculty a
We present this week in the Guilfordian Supple
ment an introduction to the campus. In later issues
the buildings, Laboratories and life will be featured.
THE GATE WAY
The Gateway to Guilford, the oldest co-educational college in the South.
A college rich in traditions, old in experience, but voung with
present day life and enthusiasm.
FOUNDERS HALL
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Founders Hall; erected 1837; school opened here that year with twenty-five boys and
twenty-five girls. Now a girls' dormitory and Faculty home, the
center of the college life.
SUPPLEMENT TO ISSUE OF APRIL 20, 1921
uers nan witn its typical
southern verandah set in a grove of spruce and magnolia
trees with rows of boxwood and other shrubbery border
ing the building.
common meeting place. Indeed all who have been connect
ed A\ ith Guilford ( olleg'e have fond, if not sacred, memories
hovering about this heart of the institution—Founders Hall.
z adhered to the great
fundamentals of the ( hristian Faith, Guilford has exerted a
marvelous influence for honesty and uprightness of charac
ter in the citizenship of our state. It has builded the faith
of its fathers into the lives of its children.
from Greensboro, it affords,
with its thirty acres of cam
pus and two hundred and
sixty acres of farm and
woods, one of the beauty
spots of the Old North State.
As one approches, the ar
tistic Entrance Gateway of
brick with granite bases and
capstones, the gift of the
class of 1909, is the first
thing seen.
From this gateway a long
drive, bordered by rows of
maple trees, leads directly
through the campus to Foun-
The men who laid
the foundation of this
building eighty years
ago were men of stern
character, simple hab
its and great faith.
The stability of their
character was built in
to the life of the in
stitution as well as
into the walls of its
halls. New Garden
Boarding School, as
Guilford was then
called, was one of the
few schools in the
South that did not
miss a session during
the Civil War. Always
operated by men and
women who have been
progressive in their
search for the truth,
but who have firmly