Citation: "Perry Snell Hall To Be Dedicated Tonight," The Cardinal, November 19, 1924, pp. 1 & 4.

"Perry Snell Arrives in Town," The Cardinal, November 19, 1924, pp. 1 & 4.

"Perry Snell Hall," Editorial, The Cardinal, November 19, 1924, p. 2.

These articles are found in UA97/7 Ogden College Publications File and are available in the Harrison-Baird reading room on microfilm roll D77N3. This and other documents regarding Ogden College history are available to researchers in WKU University Archives.

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Perry Snell Hall To Be Dedicated Tonight
Handsome New Building To Be Thrown Open For Formal Ceremony.

The aim of all the former students of Ogden has materialized! The long looked for building has been finished! With installation of chapel seats last week, the building was competed. Classes were held in all the recitation rooms last week and complete satisfaction, so far as acoustics, heat, and minor details are concerned, was expressed by the faculty and student body.

The new building is beautifully decorated throughout. The walls are white with oak and walnut wood varnished to a high gloss. The auditorium walls are finished in tan with decorations of good effect in oak. The beauty of the auditorium decorations is due to the beneficence of Mr. J. B. Sumpter. He had the contract of decorating the entire building, and when he reached the auditorium he was dissatisfied with the specifications and offered to carry out his own scheme without additional cost. As a result, the auditorium has a much better and a much more costly job than it would have had otherwise.

The roof is made of red tile and adds much to the effectiveness of the building. The front is decorated with designs in stone. The straight lines of the entire building are broken by some design in stone, an arched window, or some suitable effect in the bricklaying wrought by the skilled workmen.

The building contains six class rooms, a large laboratory and an auditorium with a seating- capacity of over five hundred. The laboratory is furnished with the best equipment obtainable, the same type as that used in the laboratory at Yale. The equipment alone cost upwards of thirteen hundred dollars. This section of the science department will occupied by the Qualitative, Quantitative, and Organic classes. The laboratories occupied by the General, Qualitative, Quantitative and Organic classes last year have been thoroughly over hauled and are occupied by the General and Prep. chemistry classes. This new laboratory adds much to Ogden’s already strong science department. The College and Prep. Physics laboratory will remain in the old building.

The seats in the auditorium are of the latest opera type. The iron parts are finished in black enamel with gilt decorations. The wood is finished in bright mahogany and has a coating of a specially prepared non-sticking varnish.

The students are thanking Mr. Perry Snell and those of the Alumni who contributed to the building of this nice structure. The friends and students of the college will gather tonight to dedicate this new addition to Ogden’s plant.

Perry Snell Arrives in Town

Distinguished Visitor Comes For
Dedication Services. Ogden's
Greatest Friend

Mr. C. Perry Snell arrived in Bowling Green yesterday and will attend the dedication of the new building tonight. Mr. Snell was in Washington, D.C., at the time he decided to come for the exercises and came direct from that city.

The generosity of this former Ogden boy is directly responsible for the new building, an extra teacher on the faculty and several other material gifts besides the added spirit and increased confidence that have come about as the result of these donations.

He was born and reared in Bowling Green and attended school at Ogden from September, 1883, to 1887, when he withdrew. After leaving Bowling Green he took up his home in St. Petersburg, Fla., where he has been very successful in real estate and other businesses. In 1921 he offered the College the sum of twenty thousand dollars toward a new building provided the friends of the school would raise an additional twenty thousand. When the total of the campaign was announced, it was found that the sum of thirty-two thousand dollars had been raised. Mr. Snell, accordingly, raised his gift to equal that of the others.

The original offer also contained a clause that would establish the General William F. Perry chair of Philosophy which has been in effect for the past two years. While in Europe last year, Mr. Snell bought some handsome oil paintings and when he returned to the States donated three of them to the college. These will probably be hung in the new building.

Thus, it can be seen that Mr. Snell is Ogden's friend and that he wants to see the school prosper in every way. Let's give him a rousing welcome tonight.

Editorial

Perry Snell Hall

THE NEW building on Ogden's campus known as Perry Snell Hall, is practically completed and its dedication tonight is the very material evidence of the growth of the institution. Ogden is now better prepared to serve than ever before and is able to offer her advantages to a much larger group of young men.

To every Ogdenite, this building stands as the fulfillment of an age old dream but it is more valuable when it is considered as a prophecy for the future.

The people of Bowling Green and the faculty and students appreciate the building as they demonstrated so well during the campaign. And, above all, they appreciate Perry Snell, the quiet, unassuming man that remembered the friend of his youth after he had met with success in the world.

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