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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE athletic teams."148 Third, in December 1915, when it became evident that, without an unexpected windfall, funds would not soon be available for a science building, the board authorized a major addition to the chemistry laboratory. Completed by the following fall, at a cost of about $4,600, it increased significantly the size of both lecture room and laboratories. Fourth, once the new preparatory department building was occupied in the fall of 1916, Stevens Hall became a College office, classroom, and dormitory building. In 1920 the second and third floors were completely remodeled and once again housed students of the preparatory department.149 Fifth, since the room reserved in Glatfelter Hall for an infirmary had never been used for that purpose, and since the promised money for such a facility did not become available, when it became necessary in the fall of 1917 to segregate a number of students with contagious diseases, the College began using its observatory as a temporary infirmary. In 1923, following another outbreak of contagious diseases, it converted the former Athletic Field House (rented to a family for several years) into an infirmary for all ill students and placed it in charge of what the catalogue described as "an experienced resident graduate nurse," under the general supervision of the medical director.150 In December 1914 Professor and Mrs. George D. Stahley, who were childless, proposed to the board that they be permitted to erect on the campus a house which would be the property of the College and "a permanent residence for us to the end of our days." The board formally accepted their proposal at its next meeting. A site at the northwest corner of Carlisle and Stevens streets was chosen and the house was built in 1915-1916, at a cost of $8,000. The Stahleys lived at 300 Carlisle street until his death in 1939; his widow continued residing there until about six months before she died in 1951. The next new structure on the campus was the Y.M.C.A. hall, which was completed in 1922. In the case of few, if any, other College buildings had there been so long a period of time between conception and fruition or so many frustrations between the time of the actual decision to build and the day of dedication. As early as 1891, urged on by the College Monthly, the Y.M.C.A. had 148The College had purchased the house in 1894, when it acquired all of the properties south of West Lincoln avenue. It was last used as a dormitory in 1920-1921. 149When the use of this building was changed in 1916, the catalogue began referring to it as Thaddeus Stevens Hall, a name which persisted until the academy closed in 1935. 150In the spring of 1926, after construction of Breidenbaugh had begun, the infirmary building was moved to a lot in the 200-block of West Lincoln avenue. The medical director and nurse continued to operate it. Mrs. Margaret E. Miller was nurse from 1926 to 1940. 51