THE GUILFORDIAN
TIIROnsH this gateway
many a youth has fil
tered a richer life. A life that
lies beyond 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
is open to you.
Guilford College, the oldest co-educational institution in southern verandah set in ;i grove of spruce and magnolia
the South, is well situated, both for convenience and for trees with rows of boxwood and other shrubbery border
natural beauty. One mile from the railroad and six miles ing the building.
THE oldest building on the campus was completed in 1837
* and is known as Founders Hall. It was substantially
remodeled and enlarged in 190S so that it is now a commo
dious girls' dormitory
with a dining hall in
which the men of the
college, the Founders
4irls 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 on Sat
urday evenings. The
monthly class meet
ings held here are gay
times for the students.
The Philoinathean
and Zatasian Literary
Societies with their
•well-furnished and
dignified halls give
valuable training to the girls. Here also is the Y. \\. ( 1 . A.
hall, and the room in which the college weekly paper is
edited. The reception room of the matron, J\liss 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
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rhe Gateway to Guilford, the oldest co-educational college in the South.
A college rich in traditions, old in experience, hut young with
present day life and enthusiasm.
FO I N DERS II AL L
Founders Hall; erected 1837; school opened here that year with twentv-five bovs and
twenty-five girls. Now a girls' dormitory and Faculty home, the
center of the college life.
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common meeting place. Indeed .ill who have been connect
ed with (Suilford College have fond, it' not sacred, memories
hovering about this heart of the institution—Founders Hal!.
fundamentals of the 'hristian Kaitli, Guilford lias 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 ! reensboro, 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 late way of
brick with granite bases and
capstones, the gift of the
class of is the lirst
thing seen.
From tliis gateway a long
drive, bordered by rows of
maple trees, leads directly
through the campus to Foun
ders Hall with its typical
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 (Jarden
Hoarding School, as
(Juilford 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
adhered to the great