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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE Huber Hall Dining Room The first College dining facility since 1860. four new structures, one of which was intended to replace Stevens Hall, long considered to be unappealing as a dormitory and unlikely to attract students to Gettysburg. It is a tribute to the hold of the preparatory department on the minds of the trustees as well as to the influence which Huber had gained among them that, when only about half of the needed funds were raised, the one building which they chose to construct was Huber Hall. The impending completion of a new building in the fall of 1916 prompted the College to revise the image of its preparatory department which it had long presented to the public. Although as early as 1911 the catalogue had begun referring to "Stevens Hall, Gettysburg Academy, Preparatory Department of Pennsylvania College," five years later only one of those terms - Gettysburg Academy - remained in the College catalogue and now appeared in the first issue of a separate annual academy catalogue. While both documents stressed the many advantages Gettysburg Academy students enjoyed because they were in "near association with a college," both also argued forcefully that the Academy "is separate and distinct from the College in that it has its own faculty, buildings and grounds and the student body has its own distinctive school life and interests." Principal Huber of the preparatory department was now transformed into Headmaster Huber of the Gettysburg Academy. The other faculty were no longer assistants; they were now masters. Since the new Huber Hall had its own kitchen and dining room, the academy could now be described as a boarding school. 53