1914-1915 Academic Catalog

Tift: COl.l,EGE 1,11\RAIIY. seventy f('('t long and fifty feet wide, provided with dress– ing rooms and shower baths, and furnishes- an excellent place for a gymnasium. \Ve are under lasting gratitude to l\lr. \V. J. Alford for his historic gift. THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY. In December, 1905, Mr. Andrew Carnegie generously donated $12,000 to erect a library building for CedarviUe College on condition that a like amount be added to tbe College endowment fund. This condition was fully met, and the building of brick 1md cut stone was completed and entered dut·ing the summer of 1908. The building is seventy-two feet in length and .forty-five feet in widtb, and contains all the modern library equipment with a capacity for 17,000 volumes. The village and College libraries have been combi1rnd, and new volumes arc being added as needed. 'J'he leading periodicals are kept on the reading tables. 'fhe physical laboratory and the rooms of the Depart– ment of Domestic Science are located in the basement of this building. 12