1929-1930 Academic Catalog

BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY In December 1905, Mr. Andrew Carnegie donated $11,695 to rect a library b~ilding for Cedarville College on condition that a like amount be added to the ollege 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. SCIENCE HALL Science Hall has been in use since September, 1923. It is a fine and imposing structure, 45x65 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 rooms a,nd toilets. The first and second floors provide space for Freshman and advanced Chemistry, Physics and Biology. These rooms are furnished with the latest equipment for the study of the sciences. Electricity, natural gas and running water are a,vailable in all de– partments. ATHLETIC FIELD The Athletic Field is a part of the main campus. Here are located the football gridiron and base ba.ll diamond. The basket ball court is in Alford Gymnasium and the tenn is courts occupy the entire space of the campus in the rear of the gymnasium. 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 February 19, 1929, was $236,833.40. 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 h is father, Peter Gibson, for many years a prominent member a.nd ruling elder of the First Reformed Presbyterian con– gregatio n of Cincinnati. By compromise with the heirs, the trustees acoepted $20,000 in full settlement. THOMAS GIBSON FUND Thomas Gibson, an elder in the First Reformed Presbyterian congr~gati_on of Cincinnati 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. ROBERT M. COOPER FUND By the will of Robert M. Cooper, a ruling elder of the Cedarville PAGE TEN