World War I and the Sanitarium

During the early 1900s, the Hill School had a cadet program on campus. Since the World War I draft included 18 year olds, most of the students in the high school fought in the final 7 months of the war. In that time, 40 Hill alumni and students perished. Their names can be found on a plaque in the Memorial Room, and the names of those who served and survived the war can also be found on the panels of the wall.

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The Sanitarium was the part of the Classics building that once stood on the site of the Library. It functioned as a hospital, but it was moved to its current site behind Wendell dorm, where an addition was built to make it almost two times larger. There, it was used as a class building joining the Meigs house and the Middle School buildings. During the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, it acted as a hospital for sick students and faculty who were on campus and coming home from fighting in World War I.