1924-1925 Academic Catalog

BUILDINGS ND EQUIPMENT THE CARNEGIE LBRARY In December 1905, Mr. Andrew Carnegie donated $11,695 to erect a library b~ilding for Cedarville College on condition that a like amount be added to the College endowment fund. This con– dition 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 con– tains 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. NEW SCIENCE HALL Cedarville's New Science Building is completed and has been in use since September, 1923. 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 are, a room and laboratory for Acadetnic Physics, cloak rooms and toilets. The first and second floors provide space for Freshman and advanced Chemistry, College Physics and Biology. These rooms are furnished with the latest equipment for the study of the sciences. Electricity, Natural Gas and running water are available in all departments. INCOME AND ENDOWMENT INCOME The income of Cedarville College consists oi 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 February 23, 1924, was $149,660.07. 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 Cedarville Ohio in memory of his father, Peter Gibson, for many years a promin'ent memb~r and r~li1;g el?,er of the Firs~ Reformed Presbyterian con– gregation of Cmcmnat1. By compromise with the heirs the trustees accepted $20,000 in full settlement. ' THOMAS GIBSON FUND Tho~as Gibson, an elder in the First Reformed Presoyterian congregat~on of Cincinnati and president of the Board of Trustees of Ced~rv11le College, left a bequest of $5,000, which came into the possess10n of the College in 191O. . RQBERT M. COOPER FUND R f By ~he will of R_obert M. Cooper, a ruling elder of the Cedarville e or~e P?sbyter!an cong:egation, the College in 1903 came into possess10n o two-thirds of hIS estate, which amounted to $4,000, PAGE EIGHT