1930-1931 Academic Catalog

BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT tains all t he modern libr ary equipment with a capacity for 17,000 volumes. The village and ollege libraries have been combined, and new vol umes are being added a s needed. The leading periodicals are kept on the reading tables. SCIENCE HALL Science Hall has been in u se since September, 1923. It is a fine and imposing structure, 45x65 f eet, loca t ed on the main campus just north of the Administrat ion 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 and toilet s. The first and second floor s provide space for Freshman and advanced Chemistry, Physics and Biology. These rooms are furni shed with t he latest equipment for the study of the sciences. E lectricity, natural ga s and running water are a vailable in all de– part ments. ATHLETIC FIELD The Athletic Field is a part of the main campus. Here are located the football gridiron and base ball diamond. The basket ball court is in Alford Gymnasium and the tennis 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 his father, Peter Gibson, for many years a prominent 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 Thomas Gibson, an elder in the First Reformed Presbyterian congregation of Cincinnati and President of the Board of Trustees of Cedarville College, left a bequest of $5,000, which came into the posses sion of the College in 1910. ROBERT M. COOPER FUND By th e will of Robert M. Cooper, a ruling elder of the Cedarville Refor:rr.ed Presbyterian congregation, the College in 1903 came into pos session of two-thirds of his estate, which amounted to $3414.45. HARPER FUND Mr. George W. Harper and wife, of Cedarville, generously gave $5,000 for the founding and maintenance of a chair of sociology and PAGE TEN