Excerpt from The Record of the Hampden-Sydney Alumni Association, Vol. 41: Winter, 1967 The Oldest four-story dormitory still being used in the United States is said to be Cushing Hall at Hamp den-sydney. The building has been an integral part of the college since the 1820's, when it was constructed during the rather important administration of Dr. Jonathan P. Cushing. For many years the tall Georgian brick structure housed almost every activity at the college, and its location atop one of the gentle hills in central Virginia caused students and faculty alike to refer to the campus as The Hill. Today The Hill has actually expanded to hundreds of acres, but Cushing Hall is still perhaps the most prominent landmark in the area. It was in this building one hundred years ago on March 2, 1867, in the room of Lennox B. Tumbull, a junior from Baltimore, Maryland, that the Chi Phi fraternity at Hampden - Sydney had its beginning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.