{"id":18432,"date":"2024-05-08T12:36:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T16:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=18432"},"modified":"2024-11-01T12:38:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T16:38:17","slug":"on-this-day-nov-13-1900-elizabethtown-college-opens-its-doors-to-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/on-this-day-nov-13-1900-elizabethtown-college-opens-its-doors-to-students\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Nov. 13, 1900 | Elizabethtown College Opens its Doors to Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Nov. 13, 1900, Elizabethtown College opened its doors to its first six students, known as the \u201cFaithful Six.\u201d Approximately 100 people gathered in the Heisey Building on the corner of South Market and Bainbridge Streets in Elizabethtown to hear addresses from representatives of the Board of Trustees, faculty members, citizens of Elizabethtown, and the students.<\/p>\n

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The home of Joseph H. Rider, where classes were held after the first week at the Heisey Building. Classes were held at Rider’s home until the completion of Alpha Hall.<\/p><\/div>\n

Alpha Hall, originally intended to be completed in time for the opening day, was still unfinished. Classes were supposed to be held at the home of Joseph H. Rider, one of the College\u2019s founders and for whom Etown\u2019s Rider Memorial Hall would eventually be named, on Washington Street, but the house wasn\u2019t yet ready. Amid fears that the College would have to delay its opening, acting president George N. Falkenstein decided to rent the Heisey Building for Etown\u2019s first temporary home.<\/p>\n

Formal opening exercises started at 2 p.m. on Nov. 13. One speaker representing each of the parties involved in the College\u2019s creation spoke. S.R. Zug began the day with prayer, while founder S.H. Hertzler ended the dedication with a call to continue to address the College\u2019s needs in its first year of courses, with the hope to continue the College well into the future.<\/p>\n

Formal opening exercises started at 2 p.m. on Nov. 13, and the following day marked the first day of class recitations. After a week, classes moved to the Rider home until Alpha Hall\u2019s completion in March 1901.<\/p>\n

The fall term lasted from Nov. 13 to Dec. 24, and five faculty members taught a variety of classes including psychology, civil government, mathematics, elocution, and English. Tuition in any regular course was $1 per week and boarding in a College building was $2.50 per week.<\/p>\n

Throughout Elizabethtown College\u2019s 125th anniversary year, follow along as we share 125 compelling stories about the College\u2019s defining moments, alumni stories, and fun facts since our founding in 1899 at\u00a0etown.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Nov. 13, 1900, Elizabethtown College opened its doors to its first six students, known as the \u201cFaithful Six.\u201d Approximately 100 people gathered in the Heisey Building on the corner of South Market and Bainbridge Streets in Elizabethtown to hear addresses from representatives of the Board of Trustees, faculty members, citizens of Elizabethtown, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":18434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18432"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18440,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18432\/revisions\/18440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}