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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE of patriotism. Consequently, there is no better location for a National Institution.232 Trustees and faculty were fully aware of the public relations possibilities which were created as many of the visitors to Gettysburg came to the campus. Frequently the editors ofthe College Monthly urged that the grounds be better kept and instructed the students on the proper reception to be accorded all guests. They were told to refrain from their usual practices of guying visitors and throwing water (or worse) upon them from the windows of Pennsylvania Hall. The campus was extensively used during the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration in June-July 1888, which coincided with commencement, the cornerstone laying for the new Recitation Building, and groundbreaking for Brua Chapel. By 1890 more than three hundred monuments had been erected on the battlefield. The faculty sometimes suspended classes to permit students to attend the inevitable dedication exercises. In 1888 the trustees gave permission to the State of Ohio to erect a monument to Battery K, First Ohio Light Artillery, at the corner of Carlisle street and West Lincoln avenue. Four years later, a monument was erected at the west end of Chambersburg street to Company A, Twenty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia. The main speakers on the occasion of its dedication, September 1, 1892, were Judge Samuel W. Penny- packer, later governor of Pennsylvania, and Harvey W. McKnight, president of the College.233 On October 15, 1890 the Count of Paris, who had fought with the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War, had written a history of the struggle, and was now visiting the battlefield, was given a reception by townspeople and students who filled Brua Chapel to capacity. Among those present to honor the pretender to the French throne were Generals Daniel E. Sickles, Henry W. Slocum, Oliver O. Howard, Daniel Butterfield, John Newton, David M. Gregg, and John P.S. Gobin. David Wills presided. The College Monthly for November 1890 claimed that this occasion brought together more 232This paragraph appears in a new introductory section of the catalogue, headed Location. The section still retained some of the flavor of the earliest days of the College. 'The moral tone of the community [of Gettysburg] is unusually good. There are fewer temptations than in most towns of its size and the direct influence on the young men is excellent." This and subsequent catalogues informed the public that direct rail connections between Gettysburg and Harrisburg (1884) and between Gettysburg and Hagerstown (1889) had now been established. 233According to the Gettysburgian for October 6, 1897, John A. Himes proposed to assign juniors to interview Adams countians, asking them to give their recollections of the Civil War. In this way he could put on record some of "those things which ordinarily do not appear in history." It is regrettable that this oral history, if it was ever gathered, has not survived. 38