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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE dismissed students to be readmitted to the College, and an occasional charge of theft. In 1904, when the permanent faculty consisted of nine professors, including the president and dean, it was clear to all who had the power to vote in faculty meetings. Later, as numbers increased and new ranks were added, the professors were reluctant to share the franchise with anyone else. In June 1934 President Hanson ruled that, on academic matters affecting the departments, each department had one vote, while on all other matters each professor, associate professor, and assistant professor had one vote. In January 1942 the faculty gave the franchise to instructors after they had served for three years, except in those instances in which the one department-one vote rule still applied. The Campus In 1904 the College campus consisted of forty-three acres of land, on which were erected seventeen major structures: Old Dorm, Linnaean Hall, the president's house, the janitor's house, Stevens Hall, a double frame house occupied by the families of two professors, the chemistry or chemical laboratory, the observatory, the New Recitation Building, Brua Chapel, a steam plant, a frame house at the southwest corner of North Washington street and West Lincoln avenue, South College, and four fraternity chapter houses. Although the catalogues after 1904 continued to call the president's house by that name, more and more people knew it best as the White House. At special ceremonies during commencement week in June 1912, the New Recitation Building was renamed Glatfelter Hall. Four years later, in December 1916, the trustees formally renamed South College McKnight Hall. Between 1904 and 1945 the College made six land purchases which more than doubled the size of the campus. In 1911 it bought a small lot at the northwest corner of North Washington street and Constitution avenue; the house on this property was rented until it was removed in 1943. In 1926, when it wished to relocate the building in which its infirmary was then housed, the College acquired a lot on the north side of the 200-block of West Lincoln avenue. In 1933 and 1938 it purchased two lots which included a small triangle of land on the northeast corner and a larger parcel on the southeast corner of North Washington and Stevens streets. By far the largest acquisition of land thus far in its history occurred in the depression year of 1935, when the College purchased from the Martin Winter estate some forty-eight acres of land, located north of Broadway, west of Route 34, and east of the railroad. As early as December 1930 President Hanson reminded the 50