1908-1909 Academic Catalog

CEDARVILLE COLLEGE. and Laboratory, and the main and side entrance corridors. On the second floor are the library. waiting rooms, the Greek and Latin, the Mathematical, English recitation rooms, besides the corridor. Two large society halls occupy the entire third floor. Two wide and gently ascending stair– ways, one on each side of the building, lead from the base– ment to the third story. T he building is lighted with natural gas, and heated by three furnaces. There are entrances from each of the four sides. Standing in the center of the campus on the highest site in Cedarville, the building pre– sents an attractive and imposing appearance. ALFORD MEMORIAL GYMNASIUM. During the holiday season of 1902, Mr. \V. J. Alford presented to the College the church building and beautiful grounds formerly the property of the Reformed Presby– terian congregation (General Synod). This building was given by the donor as a gymnasium and for a memorial of his parents, Rev. John Alford and Mrs. Mary B. Alford, of Beaver Falls, Pa. The hall has been named the ..Alford Memorial." lt is seventy feet long· and fifty feet wide, and furnishes an excellent place for a gymnasium. \Ve arc under lasting gratitude to 1fr. \V. J. Alford for his timely, needed and historic gift. THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY. In December, 1905, 1Ir. Carnegie generQusly donated $ 12,()(X) to erect a library building for Cedarville College on condition that a like amount be added to the College endow– ment fund. This condition was fully met, and the building of brick and cut stone is about completed, and will be entered this summer. The building is seventy-two feet in length and