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by the rebellion, determined to proceed at once to the 

 completion of the building. 



COMPLETION OF THE COLLEGE BUILDINGS. 



To this end, Messrs. Watts, McAllister and Pugh were 

 appointed a committee to examine the plans for the build- 

 ing, and to make such modifications of them, as might 

 seem advisable, and to take measures to have the walls up 

 and the building roofed by the first of the following No- 

 vember. 



The committee at once advertised for sealed proposals 

 to do the whole, or any part of the work, of putting up 

 the building. 



On opening the proposals thus obtained, that of George 

 W. Tate of Bellefonte, was considered the most reasonable, 

 and the committee at once articled with him to complete 

 the entire building, excepting some items specified, for the 

 sum of $41,500 the building to be under roof by the first 

 of November, 1861, and to be entirely completed by the 

 first of December, 1862. 



The -work of erecting the building was at once com- 

 menced, and has been steadily progressing up to the 

 present time, September, 1862. 



THE THIRD SESSION. 



The third session of the College was opened under pecu- 

 liarly unfavorable circumstances. The country was in 

 that ominous calm that preceded the storm of rebellion, 

 which has since broken upon it. The work of finishing 

 the College had been so long delayed, that the public began 

 to doubt the probability of its being finished at all, and it 

 was evident to all, if the buildings were not finished, the 

 School must go down. 



Many doubted its ability to survive the third session, 

 and some parents even hesitated to pay money in advance 

 for tuition, lest it should be lost by the school being broken 

 up. There were, however, many earnest friends of the 

 movement, who never doubted even, at this time, the 

 ultimate success of the school, and the timely action of the 

 Legislature tended to restore the confidence of those who 



