The Freshman Bench was presented to the school in 1901. Nicknamed the "Kissing Bench" in the 1950's and a bearer of many traditions, the Freshman class of 1903 erected this bench as a marker for their class on "Freshman Day," June 17. Constructed under cover of darkness the night before, the class dedicated the bench with an oratory program under the "great oak tree" that the freshmen chose as their class tree.