1906-1907 Academic Catalog

BU I LD IN GS The erection of the new College building was begun in the Spriug of 1801>, and completed late in the Autumn of the same year. The corner-stone was laid with impressive services June ~6, 1805, and thl" dedication took place during the meeting of the General Synod in May, 1896. The building st,tnds in a camp•1s of nine acres, containing about thrt!e hundred trees, and all bc,1utifully located on tl1c main street, north end or Cedarville. It isa handsmne edifice of pressed brick a1,d cut stone. The basement contains gymnasium, chemical and toilet rooms, a coal cellar and heating •pparatus. On the first ffoor arc the chapel, the president's office, class rooms for l\•Iusic, Germ,111, English, and Chemistry, and the main and side entrance corridors. On the second floor are the library, waiting– rooms, the Greek, and Latin, the Mathematical, general recitation rooms, besides the corridor. Two large society halls occupy the entire third ftoor. Two wide and gently ascending stairways, one on each side of the building, lead from the basement to the third slOry. The building is lighted with electricity, and heated by three furnace,. There are entrances from each of the four sides. Standing in the center of the campus on the highest site in Cedarville, 1he building presents <111 attractive and imposing appearance. ALFORD ME.MO ~ZJI-L During the holiday season of 1002, Mr. \V. J. AHord presented 10 the College the church building and beautiful grounds formerly the propertyof the Reformed Presbyterian congreg.ition(General Synod). T his building was given by the douor as a gymnasium and for ;i memorial of his parents, Rev. John Alford and l\lrs. Mary B. Alford, of Beaver Falls, Pa. The hall has been named the "Alford t-.·lemori– al." It is seventy feet Jong and fifty feet wide, and furnishes an ex– cellent place lor a gymnasium. \Ve arc under lasting gratitude to !\I r. \V. J. Alford for his timely, needed, and historic gift. LIBR.HR.Y .HND MUSEUM The F;1culty ;md students have organi1.ed a reading circle, which receives regularly the leading nrng-azines a11d periodicals. The library is well supplied with the latest works in History, Biography, Science, Philosophy, Law, Letters, Fiction, Theology, and Reference, includ– ing 1wo of the latest and fullest Encyclopedias. h j, free to .-.II