1909-1910 Academic Catalog

CEDARVILLE COLLEGE. 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 presents 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." It is seventy feet long and fifty feet wide, and furnishes an excellent place for a gymnasium. We are under lasting gratitude to Mr. \V. J. Alford for his timely, needed and historic gift. THE CARNEGI E LIBRARY. In December, 1905, Mr. Carnegie generously donated $12,000 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, :md the building of brick and cut stone was completed and entered during the summer of 19()8. The building is seventy-two feet in length and forty-five feet in width, and contains all the modem library equipment with a capacity for 17,000 volumes. The village and College libraries have been combined, and new volumes are being added as needed, while the leading peri– odicals are kept on the reading tables, all under the charge of an efficient librarian.