1919-1920 Academic Catalog

BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMEN T College Hall College Hall is the main building of the institution. It is a handsome edifice of pressed brick and cut stone. On the fi rst floor are the chapel, class rooms and waiting rooms. On the second floor are recitation rooms and the chemical and biolog– ical laboratories. Two large literary society halls occupy the entire third floor. Standing in the center of the beautiful campus, on the highest site in Cedarville, the building presents an attractive and imposing appearance. The Alford Memorial Gymnasium In 1902, Mr. W. J. Alford presented to" the College the b~~;~i~nb~~~~~g!~ro:c(3'e~:~ars;:~~~)~f •~t~s ~~~d~~~ ::~~~ by the donor as a memorial to his parents, the late Rev. John Alford, D. D., and Mrs. :Mary B. Alford, has been named the "Alford Memorial Gymnasium." It is seventy feet long and fifty feet wide, provided with dressing rooms and shower baths, and furnishes an excellent place for a gymnasium. T he Carnegie Library In December, 1905, Mr. Andrew Carnegie donated $12,00Cl to erect a library building for Cedarville College 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, and contains all the modern library equip– ment with a capacity for 17,000 volumes. 'l'hc village and College libraries have been combined, and new volumes arc being added as needed. The leading periodicals are kept on the reading tables.