1952-1953 Academic Catalog

GENERAL IN.FORMATION. 9 the oldest and has the most interesting history of any now a part of Cedar· ville 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 basketball 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 classroom. There are also locker rooms, a training room, and offices for the men's and women's Directors of Physical Education. Carnegie Library. The library building was the gift of the late An, drew 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 fifty periodicals and of the 34,000 books which are in Xenia and will be sent to Cedarville on request. Permanently shelved in the Cedarville Library are over 7,000 volumes, including specialized collections built up over the years by the College. During the past twelve months the facilities of the library have been improved materially. Harriman Hall. The residence hall for women, which has room for sixteen girls, was given to the college by a friend and member of the congregation of the late W . P. Harriman, who had at one time been the minister of the Presbyterian Church in Cedarville, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the College. The hall was named in honor and memory of him. The girls' rooms, on the second floor, are comfort· ably furnished; on the first floor, in addition to a faculty apartment, is a large parlor, with piano, for the girls' use in entertaining themselves and their callers. In the basement are laundry facilities. Rife Hall . The Rife homestead, just north of what used to be the campus boundary, was presented to the college after her mother's death by Miss Carrie Rife (Mrs. R. A. Jamieson). Miss Rife taught at the college until her marriage, and her family have attended and been friends of Cedarville for many years. The hall was named in her and their honor. The first floor is a faculty apartment, and the second floor is a men's dormitory, with rooms for fifteen. Men's Dormitory. The "Barracks" is so nicknamed because the Federal Government gave it to the College after the end of World W ar II. Brought to Cedarville and re-erected near Rife Hall, it is now a men's dormitory which accommodates about seventy m n students.