1910-1911 Academic Catalog

CEDARVILLE COLLHGE. terian congregation, (General Synod). 'fhis 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, provided with dressing rooms and shower baths, and fur– nishes an excellent place for a gymnasium. We are under lasting gratitude to Mr. \V. J. Alford for his timely, needed and historic gift. TH E CARNEGIE 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, and the building of brick and cut stone was completed and entered during the summer of 1908. The building is seventy-two feet in length and forty-five feet in width, and contains all the modern library equipment with a capacity for 17,CX>O 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. M USEUM. A number of valuable curiosities from the different por– tions of this country, Europe, and Asia have been collected and form a nucleus for a museum. Persons having in their possession curios o f animal or geological formation are hereby earnestly requested to contribute them to the College museum, and thus help us to the completion of <mr collection. - 15-