1923-1924 Academic Catalog

B ILDl GS D EQUIPMENT THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY In December, 1905, Mr. ndre~ Carnegie donated. ~11,6!)5 to erect a library building for edarville College on condit10n _that a like amount be added to the College endowment fund. This con– dition was fully met, and the building of brick and cut ston~ 'Yas completed and entered during the summer of 19_08.. The buildmg is seventy-two feet in length and forty-five feet m width, and con– tains all the modern library equipment with a capacity for 17,000 volumes. The village and ollege libraries have been combined, and new volumes are being added as needed. The leading periodicals are kept on the reading tables. NEW SCIENCE HALL Cedarville's ew Science Building will be completed and ready for occupancy this Fall. It is a fine and imposing structure, forty– five by sixty-five feet, located on the main campus just north of the Administration Building. It has a basement and two stories, heated by vapor, and is absolutely fire-proof. In the basement will be located the office, a room and laboratory for Academic Physics, cloak rooms and toilets. The first and second floors will provide space for Freshman and advanced Chemistry, College Physics and Biology. These rooms will be well furnished with the latest equipment for the study of the sciences. Electricity, atural Gas and running water will be available in all departments. INCOME AND ENDOWMENT INCOME The income of Cedarville College consists of the interest from its endowment, voluntary subscriptions and offerings from friends, contributions from the different congregations under the care of the General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and the tuition fees of the students. ENDOWMENT The total amount of the endowment of the College on October 8, 1921, was $141,743.85 . PETER GIBSON FUND Cedarville College practically had its origin in the liberality of William Gibson, of Cincinnati, who bequeathed $25,000 for the endowment fund of a College to be erected at Cedarvlle Ohio in memory of his father, Peter Gibson, for many years a promir:ent member and ruling elder of the First Reformed Presbyterian con– gregation of Cincinnati. By compromise with the heirs the trustees accepted $20,000 in fu!l settlement. ' THOMA S GIBSON FUND Thon:as Gibs~n, .an e_lder in the First Reformed Presbyterian congregation of Cmcmnati and president of the Board of Trustees of Cedarville College, left a bequest of $5,000 which came into the possession of the College in 1910. ' l ROBERT M. COOPER FUND By the will of Robert M. Cooper, a ruling elder of the Cedarville Refor~ed Presbyter~an congr:egation, the College in 1903 came into possession of two-thirds of his estate, which amounted to $4,000 . PAGE EIGHT