Minerva first appears in Draper Hall
The Echo Volume 18 Number 1, 1909 November
A 1909 article in The Echo welcomed back the Minerva statue to Draper Hall in what is now the Downtown Campus. The article stated that Minerva "graced the college with her presence for five years before the fire" that burned the Willett Street home of the college in January 1906. This is the best documentation on the acquisition, which points to the statue first appearing on campus around 1901. A later issue of the Alumni Quarterly in 1944 states that a Mrs. Cameron remembers Minerva in the halls of the university in 1888. That same piece states that Dean of Women Anna Pierce recalled that it was paid for from the $1 fees students paid from make up exams, but there is no record of this outside of the 1944 Alumni Quarterly. Anna Pierce started at the school in 1886 so she would have been an contemporaneous witness, but this conflicts with the 1909 documentation in The Echo. Minerva statue acquired with money from student fines. 1944 Alumni Quarterly
