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The One-Story Veranda.

ot· .tre awar~ of the fact that a Dormitory has h""n built for the girls, but yon arc not aware of
the fact that jtht on the front side of that Dormitory is stuck a one-story veranda, and that story is
next to the ground.
E1·ery om: is thankful for a home for the girls, e1·en though that home has only a one-story
veranda. \\'hat if it didn't ha1·e any 1·emnda 1 ::\o building has been so nruch needed ~ince girls
wcr~ first admitted to the institution a~ a Dormitory for them. And it wa~ only through the liherality of the llht
Legislature that a suffit·ient amount was appropriated for the construction of such a building. How thankful we
are for this! But why didn't they appropriate just a little hit more, so that we could ha1·e built a two-story
wrarula? A suite of rooms has heen set apart for the President, and no doubt he will he gil·en an interest in
the one-story Yeranda It is probable that a number of the cadets hal'e already applied for sitting or at least
standing room on this one-story 1·eranda for just a little while each Friday evening. So it is e1·ident that boys, as
11ell ih girls, appreciate verandas, though they may be only one story.
::\o donht it is a gn:at plea~ure for parents to think that their girls will have a home, where e1·erybody is
equal to e1·crybo<l~· else so far as food, privileges, one-story yerandas, etc.,•are concerned .
. \ hous" with a one story veranda has just as much room inside, and really there is n10re room oubide of
it, and 110 doubt it was 11·ith this in view that the Directors ordered that this particular sawed-off and hammered·
down veranda should have only one story. A one story veranda does not take up any more space on the ground
than one of an infinite munbcr of stories; but it does take up less space in the demtnts, and space is an object in
onL· ~t·nse But there is a spaee that might ha1·e been made to contain an object about the shape and size of the
second·story veran<la of a eertain girl's Dormitory without specially marriug the general appearance of the
atmospiH:re now filling said space.

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