symmetrically placed on the east side of the campus and there was an- 

 other professor's house, which stood on the site of Reunion, made 

 famous as the house of the eminent physicist, Joseph Henry. In 1870, 

 this house was torn down and rebuilt where the west front of the new 

 Chapel now stands, and was moved bodily to its present site in 1926. 

 Since President Wilson's time it has been the official dwelling of the 

 Dean of the College. Still another professor's house was demolished in 

 1882 to make room for the Marquand Chapel, which, in its turn, was 

 burned down in 1920. 



The campus was bounded on the east by the driveway between the 

 Library and the new Chapel, which is still, legally, a public street, as 

 is also the continuation of William Street, which runs from Washington 

 Road to the Library. The block so formed was solidly built up, with 

 dwelling houses on all four sides. On the south side, the campus ended 

 immediately behind Whig and Clio Halls, though on the west side was 

 a large, almost vacant field, where there was a baseball diamond, a 

 brick handball alley, and a frame structure, the gymnasium. The latter 

 I do not remember at all, for it was burned down before I was big 

 enough to go exploring on my own account. This field did not extend 

 to Nassau Street from which it was cut off by a continuous line of 

 houses and their deep gardens, but the open space extended to the backs 

 of the houses on Canal (now Alexander) Street, for there was then no 

 University Place. 



All of the northeastern and eastern parts of the town, Vandeventer 

 Avenue and the adjoining streets, as well as Prospect Avenue, Broad- 

 mead, etc., date from a later time, as do also the streets in the northwest, 

 which were laid out in the old Morven property. Bayard Lane was a 

 narrow, country lane, with only three or four houses on it; Chambers 

 Street and Greenholm were still in the womb of the future, but the maze 

 of little streets between Witherspoon Street and John's Alley were, if 

 anything, worse than they were at the time of their demolition in the 

 creation of Palmer Square in the late 'thirties of the present century. 



The Theological Seminary was, in outward appearance, but little 

 different from what it is now. The "Old Seminary" (now Alexander 

 Hall) contained the lecture rooms and served as a dormitory also. The 

 Chapel, the Lenox Library and the Refectory (now a gymnasium) were 

 the only masonry buildings of my earliest recollections, though Brown 

 Hall was put up in 1863 or 1864, taking the first large slice out of my 

 Grandfather's garden, of which nothing remains today. There were also 

 two frame buildings, long since vanished, which bounded much of the 



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