8 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING WITH ITS history covering slightly more than half of the first fifty years of this twentieth century, Harding College as such dates back to 1924 when Harper College of Harper, Kansas, was consolidat. ed with Arkansas Christian College at Morrilton. Named in honor of James A. Hardk19. the school had J. N. Armstrong as its first president. The consolidation, an advantageous one, made the school a senior college and enabled it to draw support and students from a greatly broadened field. The campus at Morrilton, a 40-acre tract in the north section of the city, was landscaped with money and labor donated by the students and faculty as the young school began its struggle to survive and to serve. The construction of an ad· ministration building and a girls' dormitory, begun by Arkansas Christian College, was completed soon after the consolidation. OLD GYMNASIUM TRAINING SCHOOL
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