GENERAL INFORMATION 9 T he purpose of the gift was to provide storage for the surplus radio and electronic equipment, provided by the government for the use of the Physics Department. The new building is large enough to house also the Biology Department: a large classroom with modern equipment, beginning and advanced laboratory rooms, and the department office. The laboratories are furnished with the latest equipment, including ample preserved and demonstration materials, visual aids such as charts and models, adequate microscopic apparatus with complete slide series for the curriculum offered, sufficient reagents, and facilities for living plants and animals. Alford Memorial Gymnasium. The gymnasium was presented to the college by W. J. Alford in memory of his father and mother, Dr. and Mrs. John Alford of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. The building itself is the oldest and has the most interesting history of any now a part of Cedarville College. It was originally the Reformed Presbyterian Church, where the founding families of Cedarville township worshiped, and the period of its building is proclaimed by its Greek Revival architecture, the cornice and the square pilasters of its facade. Tradition says that Whitelaw Reid was baptized in this church. When the new Reformed Presbyterian church was built, Mr. Alford purchased the old one as a gift to the college, and contributed the money for its conversion into a gymnasium. Now much enlarged, it contains a basket– ball floor, which is used for college dances when the playing season is over, and for Homecoming and Alumni banquets. The floor has tiers of wide bleacher space on each side, and at one end a stage, used during school hours as a physical education class room. There are also locker rooms, a training room, and offi~es fo r the men's and women's Directors of Physical Education. Carnegie Library. The library building was the gift of the late Andrew Carnegie. By an arrangement made several years ago, the College Library became a part of the Greene County Library System, so that faculty and students have full access to about one hundred and fi fty periodicals and of the 34,000 books which are in Xenia and will be sent to Cedarville on re– quest. Permanently shelved in the Cedarville Library are over 7,000 vol– umes, including specialized collections built up over the years by the Col– lege. In 1950-51 a successful campaign for funds by a committee of citizens of edarville provided for the complete redecoration of the interior of the library, and for the installation of fluorescent lighting in the reading room. The library building also contains rooms for the college boarding club an<l for the Department of Music. Harriman Hall. The re idence hall for women, which has room for si teen girls, was gn en to the college by a friend and member of the congre– gation of the late W. P. Harriman, who had at one time been the minister
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