1927-1928 Academic Catalog

BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT TH:E CARNEGIE LIBRARY In December, 1906, Mr. Andrew Carnegie donated $11,695 to erect a library building for Cedarville College on conditi 1 m .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 i.n 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 a1 e kept on the reading tables. SCIENCE HALL Science Hall has been in use since Sept., 1923. It is a fine and impos– ing structure, 46x65 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 Academic Physics, cloak roomi. and toilets. The first and second floors provide space for Freshman and advanced Chemistry, College Physics and Biology. These rooms ar~ furnished with the latest equipment for the study of the sciences. Electricity, natural gas and running water are available in all departments. ATHLETIC FIELD The Athletic Field is a part of the main campus. Here are located the foorb'all gridiron and base ball diamond. The basket ball court is in Alford Gymnasium and the tennis courts occupy the entire space of the gymnasium. · INCOME AND ENDOWMENT INCOME The income of Cedarville College consists of the int~rest from its endowment, voluntary subscriptions and offerings from friends; contributions from the different congregations under the care of the General Syn':>d of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and the tuition fees of the students. ENDOWMENT The total amount of the endowment of the College on April 1, 1927, was $178,375.46. PETER GIBSON FUND . .Cedar~lle College. pr~ctic~lly had its origin in tb e liberality of Wilham Gibson, of Cmcmnati, who hequeathed $2&,000 for the endowment funrl of a College to be erected at Cedarville Ohio in memory of his father, Peter Gibson, for many year.3 a promin'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 full settlement. ' THOMAS GIBSON FUND Th'o~as Gibs?n,. an ~Ider in the First Reformed Presbyteriall congregab_on of Cmcmnati and President of the Board of Trustees of Ced~rville College, left a bequei;t of $6,000, which came into the possession of the College in 1910. ROBERT M. COOPER FUND By the will of Robert M. Cooper, a ruling elder of the Cedarville PAGE EIGHT