No provision had been made in the new building for a kitchen and dining room; but we discovered that by digging out a large amount of earth from under the building we could make a partially lighted basement room that could be used for a kitchen and dining room.
Again I called on the students to volunteer for work, this time to assist in digging out the basement.

This they did, and in a few weeks we had a place to cook and eat in, although it was very rough and uncomfortable.

Any one seeing the place now would never believe that it was once used for a dining room.
The most serious problem, though, was to get the boarding department started off in running order, with nothing to do with in the way of furniture, and with no money with which to buy anything.

The merchants in the town would let us have what food we wanted on credit.

In fact, in those earlier years I was constantly embarrassed because people seemed to have more faith in me than I had in myself.