1911-1912 Academic Catalog

CEDARVILLE COLLEGE T his 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 building has been named the HAiford Memorial Gymnasium.'· It is seventy fe~t long and fifty feet wide, provided with dressing rooms and shower baths, and furnishes an ex– cellent place for a gymnasium. We arc under lasting gratitude to l\lr. W. J. Alford for his timely, needed, and historic gift. CARNEGIE LIBRARY. In December, Hl05, Mr. Carnegie generously do– nated $12,000 to erect a library building for Cedarville Co!lege on condition that a like amount be added to the College endowment 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, am~ contains all the modern 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. The leading periodicals are kept on the reading tables.